History of 1953
During the year of 1953 the following events have happened in our world's history.
January 20, 1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address
January 23, 1953 - Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
January 28, 1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show
February 05, 1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
February 09, 1953 - Superman TV series premiers
March 05, 1953 - Josef V Stalin died
March 11, 1953 - 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
March 19, 1953 - Academy Awards ceremony (1st telecast)
March 26, 1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
March 28, 1953 - Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
March 31, 1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
April 09, 1953 - TV Guide publishes their first issue.
April 10, 1953 - House of Wax - first 3-D movie - released in New York.
May 06, 1953 - Bobo Holloman's 1st major league start - a no-hitter
May 18, 1953 - 1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran)
May 22, 1953 - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple play - Yanks beat Wash 12-4
May 25, 1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired - Frenchman Flat - Nevada
May 25, 1953 - 1st noncommercial educational television station - Houston - Texas
May 28, 1953 - Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor - "Melody"
May 29, 1953 - Edmund Hillary & Norgay of NZ become 1st to reach top of Mt Everest
May 30, 1953 - 1st major league network baseball game - Cleveland 7 - Chicago 2
June 02, 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
June 07, 1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
June 08, 1953 - Segregated lunch counters in D C forbidden by Supreme Court. Also Tornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
June 09, 1953 - About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado
June 14, 1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2 3-0 before 74 -708 win streak of 18 straight
June 16, 1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
June 17, 1953 - Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
June 18, 1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic
June 18, 1953 - Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits as Red Sox score 17 runs in 7th inning
June 19, 1953 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY (Julius takes 3 tries - Ethel 5)
June 25, 1953 - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
June 30, 1953 - US ground forces enter Korean conflict
July 09, 1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service NY city
July 14, 1953 - 1st national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
July 26, 1953 - Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista
July 26, 1953 - Korean War Armistice
July 27, 1953 - Korean War ends
August 01, 1953 - Cal introduces it's Sales Tax (for Education)
August 04, 1953 - Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
August 12, 1953 - Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
August 12, 1953 - Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
August 20, 1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
September 05, 1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
September 10, 1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV Dinner"
September 12, 1953 - Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
September 17, 1953 - 1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins
September 28, 1953 - Edwin Hubble dies
October 05, 1953 - Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS
October 13, 1953 - Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
October 18, 1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times.
October 19, 1953 - 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
October 19, 1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
October 22, 1953 - Laos gains full independence from France.
October 28, 1953 - Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record).
October 30, 1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
October 30, 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
November 03, 1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
November 09, 1953 - Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
November 20, 1953 - 1st airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield
November 27, 1953 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65
December 07, 1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
December 11, 1953 - KTVA Anchorage becomes Alaska's 1st TV station