1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- January 6, 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
- January 19, 1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- March 18, 1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
- April 10, 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
- April 13, 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
- April 16, 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Ship HMY.
- April 25, 1953 – 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 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- May 4, 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- May 11, 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- June 8, 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- June 17, 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
- June 26, 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
- July 26, 1953 – 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.
- August 28, 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- October 30, 1953 – 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 1, 1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
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