1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- January 13, 1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
- February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 2, 1953 – The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
- April 8, 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- April 24, 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- April 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- April 29, 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- May 4, 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- May 29, 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- June 2, 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
- June 8, 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- June 9, 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
- June 18, 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
- June 19, 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 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 12, 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
- August 28, 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- December 9, 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
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