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1953 is a common year starting on Thursday.
Events
January
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 of 1953 flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea.
February
February 1 - Severe storms and spring tide flooding cause severe damage to the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands with severe flooding in Zeeland - North Sea Flood of 1953.
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
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
April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld 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 their description of the double helix structure of DNA.
May
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
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 Mátyás Rákosi 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
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
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
September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
September 26 - Rationing of sugar ends in United Kingdom
October
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
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 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu
December
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
From Here to Eternity
Julius Caesar
The Robe
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 rail transport
The first Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC, or "piggyback") equipment enters service on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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
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
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
March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist
March 6 - Jan Kjćrstad, Norwegian author
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
April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director
April 11 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, Science Fiction writer, Libertarian activist
May
May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 15 - George Brett, Baseball Hall of Famer
May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer
May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor (Remington Steele, James Bond)
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, Irish actor
May 11 - Rohit Savaram, Guntur/Indian Social Worker
June
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
July 14 - Bebe Buell, model, singer, Playmate of the Month for November, 1974
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
August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
August 19 - Benoît Régent, French film actor
August 28 - Gates McFadden, actress
October
October 2 - Brandon Wilson, author, explorer
October 7 - Christopher Norris, actress
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
October 31 - John M. Young,United Kingdom [British] Rehab Therapist
November
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
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
January 1 - Hank Williams, American country musician
January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia
March
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
May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler
July
July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealander airplane pioneer
September
September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
October
October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer
October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (b. 1912)
October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
November
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
December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike
Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger
Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Peace - George Catlett Marshall
Category:1953
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