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 3, 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- April 8, 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers.
- May 29, 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- June 8, 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
- July 7, 1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- October 12, 1953 – “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
- October 27, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- November 2, 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- December 24, 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
Who Were Born On 1953?
- February 25, 1953 – Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
- March 12, 1953 – Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
- May 16, 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- June 15, 1953 – Rita Lee, American model
- July 31, 1953 – James Read, American actor
- August 6, 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
- November 26, 1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
- December 9, 1953 – John Malkovich, American actor
- December 28, 1953 – Charlie Pierce, American writer
- December 29, 1953 – Stanley Tookie Williams, American murderer (d. 2005)