1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- 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.
- February 28, 1953 – 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’s Nature (pub. April 2).
- March 3, 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- April 10, 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
- April 24, 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- May 25, 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 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.
- July 27, 1953 – Fighting in the Korean War ends when the United States, the 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.
- August 6, 1953 – Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
- October 12, 1953 – “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
- October 15, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- October 27, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 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 17, 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 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.
- November 30, 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- 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.
- December 24, 1953 – 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.
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