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•  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.
•  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 25, 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
•  May 11, 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
•  June 18, 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
•  August 12, 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
•  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.
•  November 30, 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

•  January 9, 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children’s author
•  January 10, 1953 – Dennis Cooper, American author
•  January 21, 1953 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
•  May 16, 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
•  June 19, 1953 – Hilary Jones, English TV doctor
•  July 18, 1953 – Warren Wiebe, American singer (d. 1998)
•  August 2, 1953 – Marjo, Quebec singer
•  September 14, 1953 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
•  October 27, 1953 – Peter Firth, British actor
•  November 23, 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer