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Year 1953 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1953 January

January 7 - President of the United States Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 12 - Estonian émigrés found a Estonian Government in Exile in Oslo.
January 14

Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. Official results are to publicly "debunk" them and use the media to ridicule people.

January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying.
January 20 - Change of President of the United States from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).
January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway theatre.
January 24 – Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family – father, mother and a 6-year-old son.
January 26 - Walter Ulbricht announces that the agriculture will be collectivization in East Germany.
January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth (HM Prison) Prison.
January 31-February 1 - North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 132 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea.

February

February 1 - Surge of North Sea Flood of 1953 continues from the previous day.
February 5 - The movie Peter Pan (1953 movie) premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
February 11

President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.

February 13 - Transsexual Christine Jorgenson returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark.
February 16 - Pakistan Academy of Sciences established in Pakistan.
February 18 - The first 3-D film, Bwana Devil opens.
February 19 - Censorship: Georgia (U.S. state) approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

March

March 1

Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzed the right side of his body.
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.

March 5 - Joseph Stalin dies after 26 years of ruling the Soviet Union. Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev also dies on this day.
March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 13 - United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld as United Nations Secretary General
March 14 - Nikita Khruschev selected general secretary of the Soviet communist party.
March 17 - Nuclear test in Nevada - with 1620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 miles).
March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
March 24 - Death of Paul Couturier, architect of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
March 25-March 26 - Lari Massacre in Kenya - Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu natives.
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 13 - Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (novel) in the United Kingdom.
April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA.(::Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171, 737-738.)

May .

May 2

Hussein of Jordan is crowned King of Jordan.
38-year-old Stanley Matthews is finally on the winning side in the FA Cup, in FA Cup Final 1953.

May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk.
May 10 - Town of Chemnitz in East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A Fujita scale tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114.
May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 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 7 - Italian general election, 1953 in Italy.
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.
Austria and Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.

June 9

Central Intelligence Agency Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject.
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.

June 12 - Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
June 13 - Hungary Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
June 16 - Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.
June 17 - Workers Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a Division (military) of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
June 18 - Egypt declares a republic.
June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint (Michigan).

July

July 4 - Strike actions and riots in coal mining regions in Poland
July 5 - First meeting of the assembly of the European Economic Community in Strasbourg, France.
July 10 – Soviet official paper Pravda announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD.
July 18 - Flood in the Hondo island in Japan - 1700 dead, 7000 injured.
July 26 - Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks - preliminary to 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 as a U. S. state, retroactive to 1803.
August 8 - Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
August 11 - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake totally devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
August 13 - 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest austerity measures.
August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5.
August 18 - Kinsey report is issued.
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: 1953 Iranian coup d'état).
August 20

France government oust the sultan of Morocco and exiles him to Corsica.
The United States gives West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.

August 25 - General strike ends in France.

September

September 5 - United Nations does not accept Soviet Union's suggestion to accept China as a member.
September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Union Central Committee.
September 25

Hurricane in South-East Asia: over 1000 dead.
First German prisoners of war return from Soviet Union to West Germany.

September 26 - Rationing of Sugar-cane ends in the United Kingdom.

October

October

The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.

United States tests H-Bomb.
October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17).
October 9

Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as a German chancellor.
British Guiana constitution suspended.

October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
October 23 - Philippines' ABS-CBN made its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.
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 communism threat.

November

November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel.
November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent (nation) from France.
November 9 - King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia dies.
November 21 - Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 25 - England v Hungary (1953) at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.
November 30 - Mutesa II of Buganda, the Kabaka of Buganda (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen (Statesman), Governor of Uganda.

December

December 2 - United Kingdom and Iran reform diplomatic relations.
December 8 - US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City.
December 10 - Albert Schweitzer was given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
December 17 - The FCC approves color television.
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).

Undated

The Japanese 10 yen coin was issued with serrated edges for a five year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since and before had smooth edges.

Ongoing

Marshall Plan

Births January-February

January 4 - George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
January 6 - Malcolm Young, Australian musician
January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball player
January 10

Pat Benatar, American singer
Dennis Cooper, American author
Bobby Rahal, American race car driver

January 15 - Kent Hovind, creation science evangelist
January 19

Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor
Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician

January 21 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
January 28 - Colin Campbell (hockey), Canadian ice hockey player and executive
January 29 - Teresa Teng, Chinese singer
January 31 - Sergei Ivanov, first deputy prime minister of Russia and former minister of defense of Russia
February 1 - Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, American actress
February 9

Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
Rick Wagoner, American automotive executive

February 11

Philip Anglim, American actor
Jeb Bush, American politician
Alan Rubin, American musician

February 17

Janice Dickinson, American model
Norman Pace, British actor and comedian

February 21 - William Petersen, American actor
February 25

José María Aznar, Spanish politician
Martin Kippenberger, German artist

February 26 - Michael Bolton, American singer

March-April

March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
March 4

Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
Kay Lenz, American actress

March 6

Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
Jacklyn Zeman, American actress

March 11- Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
March 12

Carl Hiaasen, American author
Ron Jeremy, American actor

March 16

Isabelle Huppert, French actress
Richard Stallman, American free software proponent

March 17 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001)
March 23 - Chaka Khan, American singer
March 24 - Alfred Molina, English actor
March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, American film producer and director
April 2 - Jim Allister, Irish politician
April 4 - Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
April 6 - Andy Hertzfeld, American computer programmer
April 11 - Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician
April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, American writer and activist
April 18 - Rick Moranis, Canadian actor
April 19 - Ruby Wax, American British based comedian
April 20

Sebastian Faulks, English novelist
Michael Q. Schmidt (actor) American actor and model

April 22 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
April 29 - Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
April 30 - Rebecca Fransway, American author

May-June

May 5 - Dieter Zetsche, German auto executive
May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 15

George Brett (baseball), baseball player
Mike Oldfield, English composer

May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
May 19 - Victoria Wood, British actress
May 20 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
May 24 - Alfred Molina, English actor
May 26 - Michael Portillo, English politician
May 29

Danny Elfman, American composer
John Francis, Australian musician

May 30 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
May 31 - Kathie Sullivan, American singer
June 1 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer
June 4 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur
June 7 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
June 10 - John Edwards, American politician
June 13 - Tim Allen, American actor
June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
June 22 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
June 24 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist

July-August

July 5 - Tyler Sidell, model American
July 6 - Nanci Griffith, American folk singer-songwriter
July 9 - François Diederich, Luxembourgish chemist
July 14 - Bebe Buell, American model and singer
July 15

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti
Mila Pivnicki, wife of Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney

July 22 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
July 25 - Tim Gunn, American fashion expert
July 26 - Robert Phillips, American guitarist
July 27 - Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
July 29 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush (band))
August 5 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (d. 2005)
August 7 - Anne Fadiman, American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman
August 9 - Robert Cray, American musician
August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
August 14 - Cliff Johnson (game designer), American game designer
August 16 - Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
August 19 - Benoît Régent, French actor (d. 1994)
August 26 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
August 29 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
August 31 - György Károly, Hungarian author

September-October

September 4 - Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, American actor
September 7 - Mammootty, Indian actor
September 8 - Stu Unger, American poker player (d. 1998)
September 10 - Amy Irving, American actress
September 11 - Lesley Visser, American sportscaster and journalist
September 12 - Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer, artist, and photographer (d. 2004)
September 18 - Betsy Boze, Dean and CEO, Kent State University Stark
September 21 - Andrew Heermans, musician, recording engineer, music producer
September 22 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
September 23 - Alexey Maslov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces
September 27 - Greg Ham, band member of 80's band Men at Work
September 30 - Deborah Allen, American singer
October 2 - Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
October 7

Christopher Norris (critic), British critical theorist
Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)

October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
October 14 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer
October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
October 12 - Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
October 27

Robert Picardo, American actor
Peter Firth, British actor

October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor

November-December

November 4 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
November 11 - Harley Venton, American actor
November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
November 18 - Alan Moore, English writer and magician
November 19

Robert Beltran, American actor
Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)

November 23 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
November 25 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
November 27 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russians rock musician, one of the "fathers" of Russian rock
November 29

Alex Grey, American artist
Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter

December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player
December 8 - Kim Basinger, American actress
December 13

Ben Bernanke, American economist
Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player

December 15 - Julie Taymor, American film, theater, and opera director and costume designer
December 18 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
December 29 - Stanley Williams, American gang member (Crips) (d. 2005)
December 30 - Harald Schmautz, German journalist
December 31 - James Remar, American actor

date unknown

Peter Lord, British film producer and director
Ikue Mori, drummer, composer, and graphic designer

Deaths January - June

January 1 - Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)
January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
February 5 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)
February 25 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
March 5

Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897)
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1879)

March 24 - Mary of Teck, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
March 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
April 20 - Erich Weinert, German writer, Communist, and member of the KPD. (b. 1890)
May 16 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
June 1 - Alex James (footballer), Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)

July - December

July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
July 29 - Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
August 11 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892)
August 15 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
September 2 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
September 8 - Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
September 12 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
September 26 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
October 11 - Robin Bush, younger sister of President George Walker Bush (b. 1949)
October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
October 27 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1870)
November 8 - John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
November 21 - Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893)
November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1888)
November 29

Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875)
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)

November 30 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
December 18 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1868)
December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
December 31 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)

Nobel prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics - Frits Zernike
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
Nobel Prize in Literature - Winston Churchill
Nobel Peace Prize - George Catlett Marshall

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