1953 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1953?
- January 3, 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- 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 1, 1953 – Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
- 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 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- May 11, 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
- May 25, 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
- 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 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
- June 18, 1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
- July 26, 1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
- August 12, 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
- September 13, 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- October 27, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 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.
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