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1953 Calendar

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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 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.
•  July 7, 1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
•  July 26, 1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
•  August 6, 1953 – Venerable Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
•  August 12, 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
•  August 28, 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
•  October 15, 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.

•  January 5, 1953 – George Tenet, American civil servant, university professor and 18th Director of Central Intelligence
•  January 22, 1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
•  April 22, 1953 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
•  June 4, 1953 – Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
•  July 11, 1953 – Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
•  July 27, 1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
•  September 11, 1953 – Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
•  November 24, 1953 – Glenn Withrow, American actor
•  December 17, 1953 – Barry Livingston, American actor
•  December 21, 1953 – Betty Wright, American singer