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•  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 10, 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
•  April 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
•  May 18, 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
•  June 19, 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
•  July 26, 1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
•  August 12, 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
•  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.

•  January 2, 1953 – Vincent Racaniello American virologist
•  January 23, 1953 – John Luther Adams, American composer
•  February 7, 1953 – Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
•  April 28, 1953 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist and poet (d. 2003)
•  June 22, 1953 – Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
•  July 20, 1953 – Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
•  July 24, 1953 – Claire McCaskill, American politician
•  August 19, 1953 – Lynwood Slim, American blues musician
•  September 6, 1953 – Anne Lockhart, American actress
•  November 16, 1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor