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1953 Historical Event(s)
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.
February 11, 1953
– President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
February 14, 1953
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
April 10, 1953
– Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
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.
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.
August 12, 1953
– Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
October 27, 1953
– British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
October 29, 1953
– BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
November 1, 1953
– Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
Who Were Born On 1953?
January 2, 1953
– Vincent Racaniello American virologist
January 29, 1953
– Paul Fusco, American puppeteer, voice-over artist and character actor
March 13, 1953
– Ridley Pearson, American writer
April 16, 1953
– Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil)
July 11, 1953
– Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
September 10, 1953
– Amy Irving, American actress
September 17, 1953
– Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
September 27, 1953
– Greg Ham, Australian musician and songwriter (Men at Work)
October 28, 1953
– Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
November 5, 1953
– Florentino V. Floro, Filipino judge