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Date	Event
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 5, 1953	The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 13, 1953	An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
January 14, 1953	Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
January 19, 1953	Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
January 31, 1953	A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
February 3, 1953	The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
February 11, 1953	Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
February 11, 1953	Israeli-Soviet relations are severed.
February 19, 1953	Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
February 28, 1953	James 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	Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
March 3, 1953	A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
March 5, 1953	Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
March 6, 1953	Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 18, 1953	An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
April 8, 1953	Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
April 13, 1953	CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
April 24, 1953	Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
April 25, 1953	Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
April 27, 1953	Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
April 29, 1953	The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
May 4, 1953	Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
May 14, 1953	Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike.
May 18, 1953	Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
May 25, 1953	Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
May 25, 1953	The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
May 29, 1953	Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
June 2, 1953	The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation[7] and one of the first major international events to be televised.
June 8, 1953	An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
June 8, 1953	The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
June 9, 1953	The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
June 17, 1953	Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
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.
June 18, 1953	A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
June 19, 1953	Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
June 26, 1953	Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
June 30, 1953	The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
July 7, 1953	Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
July 17, 1953	The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
July 26, 1953	Cold War: 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
July 26, 1953	Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
July 26, 1953	Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
July 27, 1953	Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
August 10, 1953	First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
August 12, 1953	First thermonuclear bomb test: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a "layered" scheme.
August 12, 1953	The 7.2 Ms  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
August 17, 1953	First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
August 19, 1953	Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
August 22, 1953	The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
September 7, 1953	Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 12, 1953	U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
September 13, 1953	Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 16, 1953	American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
September 21, 1953	Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
September 26, 1953	Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
October 1, 1953	Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
October 1, 1953	A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.
October 16, 1953	Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.
October 29, 1953	BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
October 30, 1953	President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
November 9, 1953	Cambodia gains independence from France.
November 17, 1953	The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
November 21, 1953	The Natural History Museum, London 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.
December 8, 1953	U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
December 9, 1953	Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
December 10, 1953	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 24, 1953	Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.