1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- 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 13, 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
- 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 16, 1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
- 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 26, 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
- July 7, 1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- August 6, 1953 – Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
- August 12, 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
- September 7, 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- November 1, 1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
- November 2, 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- 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.
- December 9, 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
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