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1953
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1948 1949 1950 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
Events
- 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 31, February 1 - North Sea flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands and 307 in the United Kingdom.
- 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 Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA.
- 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 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
- April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
- April 25 - Francis Crick and James Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 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 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
- June 17 - Workers Uprising in East Germany.
- July 26 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack 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 7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803.
- August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
- 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.
- October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
- 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, was a hoax.
- 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
Births
- 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 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
- February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress
- February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor
- February 11 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut
- February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure
- February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic
- February 21 - William Petersen, actor
- February 25 - José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- March 12 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor
- March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
- March 16 - Richard Stallman, Free software proponent
- March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
- March 23 - Chaka Khan, singer
- March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
- April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director
- April 11 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
- April 22 - Frank Netzel, Political activist
- May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer
- May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor
- May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
- May 26 - Michael Portillo, politician
- May 29 - Danny Elfman, (composer)
- May 30 - Colm Meaney, actor
- June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer
- June 13 - Tim Allen, actor
- July 15 - Mila Pivnicki, First Lady of Canada
- July 29 - Geddy Lee, musician with Rush
- August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
- August 19 - Benoît Régent, French film actor
- October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, actor
- October 16 - Terrence John Mason, American violinist
- October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
- November 18 - Alan Moore, comicbook writer, writer, performer, magician
- December 8 - Kim Basinger, actress and Oscar winner
Deaths
- March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
- March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
- March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
- March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer, producer
- 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.
- July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealander airplane pioneer.
- September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
- October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer
- November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
- November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
- November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
- November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
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