1953

1953 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for the calendar).

Years: 1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1953 in art 1953 in aviation 1953 in film 1953 in literature 1953 in music 1953 in radio 1953 in science 1953 in sports 1953 in television

Events

January events

January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia
January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).
January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway
January 24 � Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family � father, mother and a 6-year-old son
January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth prison
January 31, February 1 - North Sea flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea.

February events

February 5 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
February 11 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
February 18 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil opens.
February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States
February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA.

March events

March 1 - Aafter an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body.
March 1 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle
March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies.
March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
March 25-26 � Lari Massacre in Kenya � Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu
March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

April events

April 7 - Dag Hammarskj�ld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
April 8 � Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced for seven years in prison for alleged organization of Mau Mau Rebellion
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.

May events

May 9 � France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk
May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114.
May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
May 29 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

June events

June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
June 8 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
June 9 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
June 13 - Hungarian Prime Minister M�ty�s R�kosi 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 - Egypt declares a republic
June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

July events

July 10 � Soviet official paper Pravda announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD
July 26 - Fidel Castro leads a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, sparking the Cuban Revolution.
July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.

August events

August 5 - Operation Big Switch, operation to repatriate prisoners of war after the Korean War
August 7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803.
August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5.
August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see: Operation Ajax).

September events

September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
September 26 - Rationing of sugar ends in United Kingdom

October events

October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17)
October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
October 30 - Cold War: US 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 events

November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel
November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 25 - England lose 6-3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home
November 28 - Ben Bolt,Innovator of Guitar
November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu

December events

December 23 � Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed
December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River
December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).

Year in topic

1953 in film
1953 in literature
- Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1953 in music
- Elvis Presley records for the first time
1953 in sports
- April 16th - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup, defeating Boston Bruins winning the series 4 games to 1, with a score of 1-0, in the first overtime at 1:22 (minutes:seconds)
1953 in television
- January 19 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth
- February 18 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.
- March 25 - CBS concedes victory to RCA in the war over color television standards.
- April 3 - TV Guide is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000
- May 25 - KUHT in Houston, becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station
- The Tonight Show begins as a local New York variety show.
- August 30 - The first publicly announced experimental broadcast in compatible color is presented: NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
- October 19 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius La Rosa on the air.
- November 22 - RCA airs the first commercial program in compatible color: The Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor, by special permission of the FCC.
- December 24 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program.
- December 17 - The FCC reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/NTSC color system
- Japanese television goes on the air for the first time
1953 in theater
- July 13 - First lines of the first play produced by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Richard III) are spoken.

Births

January births

January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball relief pitcher
January 10 - Pat Benatar, singer
January 10 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer
January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
January 21 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur
January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director
January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark

February births

February 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress
February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor
February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure
February 11 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut
February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic
February 21 - William Petersen, actor
February 25 - Jos� Mar�a Aznar, Spanish politician

June births

June 6 - Robert Bruce Thompson, American author
June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer
June 13 - Tim Allen, actor
June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government

July births

July 15 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president of Haiti
July 15 - Mila Pivnicki, First Lady of Canada
July 29 - Geddy Lee, musician with Rush

August births

August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
August 19 - Beno�t R�gent, French film actor
August 28 - Gates McFadden, actress

October births

October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, actor
October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
October 12 - Les Dennis, comedian and television presenter
October 16 - Terrence John Mason, American violinist
October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
October 27 - Robert Picardo, actor
October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor

November births

November 18 - Alan Moore, comic book writer, writer, performer, magician
November 19 - Robert Beltran, actor
November 28 - Ben Bolt,American Guitarist
November 29 - Alex Grey, artist

December births

December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player
December 8 - Kim Basinger, actress and Oscar winner
December 13 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer
December 30 - Meredith Vierra, talk show host

Deaths

January deaths

January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia

March deaths

March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer, producer
March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
March 24 - Queen Mary the Dowager Queen Mother, formerly Mary of Teck, widow of King George V of the United Kingdom
March 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b. 1887)

May deaths

May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler

July deaths

July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealander airplane pioneer

September deaths

September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient

October deaths

October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer
October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (b. 1912)
October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)

November deaths

November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
November 21 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893)
November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet

December deaths

December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)

Nobel Prizes

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