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1953 Calendar

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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 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.

•  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