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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1953


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 1 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
  • January 7 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
  • January 8 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
  • January 26 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
  • January 28 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
  • January 28 - Derek Bentley, (b. 1933)
  • February 24 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
  • February 25 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
  • March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
  • March 3 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
  • March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
  • March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
  • March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • March 24 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
  • March 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
  • April 2 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
  • April 4 - King Carol II of Romania, (b. 1893)
  • April 6 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
  • April 9 - Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (b. 1877)
  • April 11 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
  • May 16 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
  • May 27 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
  • May 28 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
  • May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
  • May 30 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
  • June 16 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
  • June 19 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
  • June 19 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
  • June 30 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
  • July 15 - Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios, (b.1882)
  • July 16 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
  • July 18 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
  • July 20 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
  • July 20 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
  • July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
  • July 31 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
  • August 11 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
  • August 15 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
  • August 22 - Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
  • September 1 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
  • September 2 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
  • September 5 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician
  • September 12 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
  • September 18 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
  • September 26 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
  • September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
  • October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
  • October 8 - Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
  • October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
  • October 20 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
  • October 23 - Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (b. 1869)
  • October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (b. 1867
  • October 27 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
  • October 29 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
  • November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer
  • November 8 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
  • November 9 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
  • November 9 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
  • November 21 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
  • November 22 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
  • November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
  • November 29 - Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
  • November 29 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
  • November 29 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
  • November 30 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
  • December 2 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
  • December 5 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
  • December 10 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
  • December 19 - Robert Millikan, American physicist
  • December 23 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
  • December 25 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
  • December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
  • December 29 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
  • December 31 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)

Events
  • January 3 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • January 7 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
  • January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
  • January 19 - 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • January 31 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
  • February 11 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
  • February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
  • February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
  • February 21 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
  • February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
  • March 1 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
  • March 2 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
  • March 3 - A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
  • March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
  • March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
  • April 8 - Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
  • April 9 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
  • April 13 - CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
  • April 16 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia.
  • April 24 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
  • April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • April 29 - The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
  • May 4 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • May 11 - The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
  • May 18 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
  • May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
  • May 25 - The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • May 29 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
  • June 2 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
  • June 8 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
  • June 8 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
  • June 9 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
  • June 13 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
  • June 17 - Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
  • June 18 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
  • June 18 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
  • June 19 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
  • June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
  • July 7 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
  • July 20 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
  • July 26 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
  • July 26 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
  • July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
  • July 30 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
  • August 12 - Nuclear testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
  • August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
  • August 19 - Cold War: the CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
  • August 20 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
  • August 28 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
  • September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • September 13 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • October 5 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
  • October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
  • October 15 - British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
  • October 22 - Laos gains independence from France.
  • October 27 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
  • October 30 - Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
  • November 2 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
  • November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
  • November 17 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
  • November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
  • November 30 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
  • December 8 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
  • December 9 - Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
  • December 24 - Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
  • December 30 - The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.


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