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 29, 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- April 30, 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
- 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.
- September 7, 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- November 9, 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- November 17, 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- December 9, 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Who Were Born On 1953?
- February 11, 1953 – Jeb Bush, American politician and 43rd Governor of Florida
- April 9, 1953 – John Howard, English singer-songwriter
- April 13, 1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
- May 26, 1953 – Kay Hagan, American politician
- August 7, 1953 – Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman
- August 17, 1953 – Michael Malthouse, Premiership winning Australian football coach
- August 19, 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant
- August 29, 1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
- September 11, 1953 – Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer
- December 13, 1953 – Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player and General Manager