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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 2, 1953
– The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
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 29, 1953
– The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
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.
November 17, 1953
– The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
November 21, 1953
– The British Natural History Museum announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
December 9, 1953
– Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Who Were Born On 1953?
January 4, 1953
– James Warren, American journalist
January 15, 1953
– Ta-Tanisha, American actress
January 22, 1953
– Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
January 24, 1953
– Tim Stoddard, American baseball player
March 23, 1953
– Chaka Khan, American singer
March 26, 1953
– Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian nationalist (d. 2002)
April 3, 1953
– Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna
April 6, 1953
– Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
June 2, 1953
– Cornel West, American civil rights activist
November 23, 1953
– Johan de Meij, Dutch conductor and composer