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•  February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  March 2, 1953 – The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
•  April 8, 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
•  May 18, 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
•  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 8, 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
•  June 9, 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
•  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.
•  October 15, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.

•  February 15, 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
•  April 4, 1953 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
•  May 30, 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
•  June 11, 1953 – Georgios Orfanos, Greek politician
•  July 11, 1953 – Ivan Toms, South African physician
•  October 13, 1953 – Pat Day, American jockey
•  October 14, 1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
•  October 21, 1953 – Peter Mandelson, British politician
•  October 26, 1953 – Rosa Monckton, English fundraiser
•  December 14, 1953 – René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer