1953 Calendar
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1953 Historical Event(s)
- January 19, 1953 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 6, 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- April 8, 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- April 24, 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- June 19, 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- September 13, 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- October 15, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- October 30, 1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States’ arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
- November 9, 1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
Who Were Born On 1953?
- January 9, 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children’s author
- January 22, 1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
- January 29, 1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
- February 9, 1953 – Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor
- May 14, 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
- September 5, 1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
- September 18, 1953 – John McGlinn, American conductor (d. 2009)
- November 5, 1953 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino judge
- December 14, 1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
- December 28, 1953 – Charlie Pierce, American writer