1953 Calendar
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1953 Historical Event(s)
February 14, 1953
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
March 18, 1953
– An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
April 8, 1953
– Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
April 27, 1953
– Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
June 8, 1953
– The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
June 17, 1953
– East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
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 6, 1953
– Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
August 17, 1953
– Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
September 21, 1953
– LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
Who Were Born On 1953?
January 11, 1953
– John Sessions, Scottish actor
January 20, 1953
– Colleen Zenk Pinter, American actress
February 11, 1953
– Philip Anglim, American actor
March 4, 1953
– Geoff Nicholson, British novelist and non-fiction writer
March 16, 1953
– Richard Stallman, American free software activist
May 14, 1953
– John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008)
July 2, 1953
– Mark Hart, American multi-instrumentalist (Crowded House, Supertramp)
August 3, 1953
– Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician
October 27, 1953
– Peter Firth, British actor
November 13, 1953
– Andrew Ranken, English musician (The Pogues)