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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_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_31, February_1 - North_Sea flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands and 307 in the United_Kingdom.
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.
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_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_26 - Jonas_Salk announces his polio vaccine.
April_7 - Dag_Hammarskjöld is elected United_Nations_Secretary_General.
structure of DNA.
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).
, 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_2 - Coronation of Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom_ at Westminster_Abbey.
killing 115. This is the last tornado in U.S. history to claim more than 100 lives.
killing 94.
June_17 - Workers Uprising in East_Germany.
July_26 - Fidel_Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada_Barracks sparking the Cuban_Revolution.
, People's_Republic_of_China, North_Korea, and South_Korea sign an armistice agreement.
August_7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803.
helps to overthrow the government of ).
September_7 - Nikita_Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
October_12 - "The_Caine_Mutiny_Court_Martial" opens at Plymouth_Theatre, New_York.
threat.
October - The UNIVAC_1103 is the ''first commercial computer'' to use random_access_memory.
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, was a hoax.
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
''From_Here_to_Eternity''
''Julius Caesar''
''The_Robe''
1953_in_literature
Casino_Royale, the first James_Bond novel published
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 - NBC's ''Kukla,_Fran,_and_Ollie'' Show is broadcast in color
October_19 - Arthur_Godfrey fires Julius_La_Rosa on the air.
November - RCA tests its compatible color TV system on the air for the first time with a telecast of the ''Colgate Comedy Hour''.
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_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_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 - José_María_Aznar, Spanish politician
March_12 - Carl_Hiaasen, author
March 12 - Ron_Jeremy, pornographic_film actor
March_16 - Isabelle_Huppert, actress
March 16 - Richard_Stallman, Free software proponent
March_23 - Chaka_Khan, singer
March_26 - Elaine_Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
April_1 - Barry_Sonnenfeld, producer, director
April_11 - Guy_Verhofstadt, Prime_Minister_of_Belgium
April_22 - Frank_Netzel, Political activist
May_6 - Tony_Blair, Prime_Minister_of_United_Kingdom
May_15 - Mike_Oldfield, composer
May_16 - Pierce_Brosnan, actor
May_19 - Victoria_Wood, British comic actress
May_24 - Alfred_Molina, actor
May_26 - Michael_Portillo, politician
May_29 - Danny_Elfman, (composer)
May_30 - Colm_Meaney, actor
June_8 - Bonnie_Tyler, singer
June_13 - Tim_Allen, actor
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_11 - Hulk_Hogan, American professional_wrestler
August_19 - Benoît Régent, French film actor
October_9 - Tony_Shalhoub, actor
October_12 - Serge_Lepeltier, French politician
October_16 - Terrence_John_Mason, American violinist
October_22 - Jeff_Goldblum, actor
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October_31 - Michael_J._Anderson, American actor
November_18 - Alan_Moore, comic book writer, writer, performer, magician
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November_29 - Alex_Grey, artist
December_8 - Kim_Basinger, actress and Oscar winner
December_13 - Bob_Gainey, Hockey_Hall_of_Famer
Deaths
January_28 - James_Scullin, ninth Prime_Minister_of_Australia
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_29 - Man_Mountain_Dean, professional wrestler
July_29 - Richard William Pearse, New_Zealander airplane pioneer.
September_2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal_of_Honor recipient
October_3 - Arnold_Bax, composer
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
Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike
Chemistry - Hermann_Staudinger
Medicine - Hans_Adolf_Krebs, Fritz_Albert_Lipmann
Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Peace - George_Catlett_Marshall
Books
Fahrenheit_451 - Ray_Bradbury
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