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1953 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
•  February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  April 13, 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
•  April 24, 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
•  May 11, 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
•  May 25, 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
•  June 26, 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
•  November 1, 1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
•  November 17, 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
•  November 30, 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

•  January 22, 1953 – Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
•  April 9, 1953 – John Howard, English singer-songwriter
•  May 30, 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
•  June 2, 1953 – Cornel West, American civil rights activist
•  July 2, 1953 – Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
•  July 24, 1953 – Jon Faddis, American jazz trumpet player and composer
•  August 30, 1953 – Ron George, American politician
•  September 11, 1953 – Renée Geyer, Australian jazz, soul and R&B singer
•  November 16, 1953 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor
•  December 17, 1953 – Sally Menke, American film editor (d. 2010)