1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- January 13, 1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
- January 19, 1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- January 31, 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
- 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 6, 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- April 10, 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
- April 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- April 30, 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
- May 11, 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- May 16, 1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
- May 18, 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
- June 18, 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- August 17, 1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
- September 21, 1953 – LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
- 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 2, 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- November 9, 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- November 21, 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
- December 8, 1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his “Atoms for Peace” speech, and the U.S. launches its “Atoms for Peace” program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
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