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July 28, 1947

The World of Hollywood Gossip

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July 27, 1953: Armistice in Korea

When the Korean War ended in 1953, it was with the frustrating conclusion that both sides had lost. Though citizens celebrated the end of fighting, leadership marked the armistice with a something more like a sigh. "Thus, 37 months and two days after the Russian-trained North Koreans attacked across the 38th parallel, the Korean war—a devastating struggle, laced from the start with glory, agony, triumph, frustration—came to a halt, perhaps temporary, perhaps permanent," TIME noted. "The war had cost the U.S. more than 140,000 casualties (some 25,000 dead, 102,000 wounded, 13,000 missing and captured), $22 billion. The problem of ending it had roweled the best brains of two U.S. Administrations, and had helped to win a national election for one, to lose it for the other."

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July 26, 1954

Willie Mays Comes to Win

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July 25: Puerto Rico Constitution Day

"Over Puerto Rico last week a new flag flew side by side with the Stars & Stripes," TIME reported in August of 1952, shortly after the Constitution of Puerto Rico was signed into law. "For 2,250,000 islanders, the single white star in a blue triangle against a field of red and white bars signified a nationalist dream come true. Puerto Rico had become a free commonwealth, autonomous in internal affairs, under its own constitution, recently approved by the U.S. Congress and President."

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