
1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===January=== * January 7 - President of the United States Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. * January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * January 20 - Change of President of the United States from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). * January 22 - ''The Crucible'', a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway * January 24 – Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family – father, mother and a 6-year-old son * January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth (HM Prison) Prison * January 31, February 1 - North Sea Flood of 1953 flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 134 on the Princess Victoria (sinking). ===February=== * February 1 - Severe storms and spring tide flooding cause severe damage to the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands with severe flooding in Zeeland - North Sea Flood of 1953. * February 5 - The movie ''Peter Pan (1953 movie)'' premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City). * February 11 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. * February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. * February 18 - The first 3-D film, ''Bwana Devil'' opens. * February 19 - Censorship: Georgia (U.S. state) approves the first literature censorship board in the United States * February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA. ===March-April=== * March 1 - After an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. * March 1 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle * March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies. * March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. * March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250. * March 25-March 26 – ''Lari Massacre'' in Kenya – Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu * March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. * April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General. * April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced for seven years in prison for alleged organization of Mau Mau Rebellion * April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA. ::Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). [http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/index.html Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid]. ''Nature'' 171, 737-738. ===May=== *May 2 - Hussein of Jordan is crowned King of Jordan. *May 2 - 38-year-old Stanley Matthews finally wins the FA Cup at his third attempt, in the famous 'Matthews Final' * May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk * May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A Fujita scale tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114. * May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour). * May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. * May 29 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. ===June-July=== * June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. * June 8 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives. * June 9 - Central Intelligence Agency Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject. * June 9 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94. * June 13 - Hungary Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy. * June 17 - Workers Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. * June 18 - Egypt declares a republic * June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg * June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint (Michigan) * July 10 – Soviet official paper ''Pravda'' announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD * July 26 - Fidel Castro leads a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, sparking the Cuban Revolution. * July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement. ===August-October=== * August 5 - Operation Big Switch, operation to repatriate prisoners of war after the Korean War * August 7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803. * August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5. * August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see: Operation Ajax). * September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Union Central Committee. * September 26 - Rationing of sugar ends in the United Kingdom * October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory. *October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17) * October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York. * October 30 - Cold War: US 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 communism threat. ===November-December=== * November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel * November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. * November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax. * November 25 - England v Hungary (1953) at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home * November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu * December 8 - US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City * December 23 – Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed * December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River * December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars). ==Year in topic== * 1953 in film **From Here to Eternity **Julius Caesar (1953 movie) **The Robe * 1953 in literature **Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published **Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury * 1953 in music **Elvis Presley records for the first time * 1953 in rail transport ** The first Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC, or "piggyback") equipment enters service on the Southern Pacific Railroad. * 1953 in sports **April 16th - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup, defeating Boston Bruins winning the series 4 games to 1, with a score of 1-0, in the first overtime (sport) at 1:22 (minutes:seconds) * 1953 in television **January 19 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucille Ball give birth **February 18 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955. **March 25 - CBS concedes victory to RCA in the war over color television standards. **April 3 - TV Guide is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000 **May 25 - KUHT in Houston, becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station **The Tonight Show begins as a local New York variety show. **August 30 - The first publicly announced experimental broadcast in compatible color is presented: NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie. **October 19 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius La Rosa on the air. **November 22 - RCA airs the first commercial program in compatible color: ''The Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor,'' by special permission of the FCC. **December 24 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program. **December 17 - The Federal Communications Commission reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/NTSC color system **Japanese television goes on the air for the first time *1953 in theater **July 13 - First lines of the first play produced by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Richard III (play)) are spoken. ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball relief pitcher * January 10 - Pat Benatar, singer * January 10 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer * January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor * January 21 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur * January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director * January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark * February 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk) * February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1998) * February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress * February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor * February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure * February 11 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut * February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic * February 21 - William Petersen, actor * February 25 - José María Aznar, Spain politician ===March-May=== * March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist * March 6 - Jan Kjærstad, Norway author * March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author * March 12 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor * March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress * March 16 - Richard Stallman, Free software proponent * March 23 - Chaka Khan, singer * March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor * April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director * April 11 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium * April 11 - Andrew Wiles, mathematician * April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, Science Fiction writer, Libertarian activist * May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * May 15 - George Brett, Baseball Hall of Famer * May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer * May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor (''Remington Steele'', James Bond) * May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress * May 24 - Alfred Molina, actor * May 26 - Michael Portillo, politician * May 29 - Danny Elfman, (composer) * May 30 - Colm Meaney, Ireland actor * May 11 - Rohit Savaram, Guntur/Indian Social Worker ===June-August=== * June 6 - Robert Bruce Thompson, American author * June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer * June 13 - Tim Allen, actor * June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government * July 14 - Bebe Buell, model, singer, Playmate for November, 1974 * July 15 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president of Haiti * July 15 - Mila Pivnicki, First Lady of Canada * July 29 - Geddy Lee, musician with Rush (band) * August 5 - Rick Mahler, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005) * August 11 - Hulk Hogan, United States professional wrestler * August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician * August 19 - Benoit Regent, French film actor * August 28 - Gates McFadden, actress ===October-December=== * October 2 - Brandon Wilson, author, explorer * October 7 - Christopher Norris, actress * October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, actor * October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician * October 12 - Les Dennis, comedian and television presenter * October 16 - Terrence John Mason, United States violinist * October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, actor * October 27 - Robert Picardo, actor * October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, United States actor * October 31 - John M. Young,United Kingdom [British] Rehab Therapist * November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France of France * November 18 - Alan Moore, comic book writer, writer, performer, magician * November 19 - Robert Beltran, actor * November 28 - Ben Bolt, American guitarist * November 29 - Alex Grey, artist * December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player * December 8 - Kim Basinger, actress and Oscar winner * December 13 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer * December 30 - Meredith Vierra, talk show host ==Deaths== * January 1 - Hank Williams, American country music musician * January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia * March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner * March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer, producer * March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer * March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader * March 24 - Mary of Teck, formerly Mary of Teck, widow of King George V of the United Kingdom * March 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b. 1887) * May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler * July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883) * July 29 - Richard Pearse , New Zealander airplane pioneer * August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player * September 2 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, United States Medal of Honor recipient * October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer * October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (b. 1912) * October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867) * November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870) * November 8 - John van Melle, South African author * November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author * November 21 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893) * November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright * November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor * November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet * December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894) ===Unknown date=== * T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Frits Zernike * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann * Nobel Prize in literature - Winston Churchill * Nobel Prize/Peace - George Catlett Marshall 1953 la:1953 simple:1953
== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC) ---- ''* March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.'' Which event is meant by ''succeeds''? Malenkov was appointed the Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR by a common meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet of Minsters of the USSR, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 5, 1953, before Stalin's official death time. He was not appointed the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Soviet Union (there was no position called First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). He was and remained until March 14 one of the Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Soviet Union. On March 15 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR officially elected him the Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR. User:Andres 12:18, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} ==Events== ===January=== * January 7 - President of the United States Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. * January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia * January 20 - Change of President of the United States from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). * January 22 - ''The Crucible'', a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway * January 24 – Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family – father, mother and a 6-year-old son * January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth (HM Prison) Prison * January 31, February 1 - North Sea Flood of 1953 flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 134 on the Princess Victoria (sinking). ===February=== * February 1 - Severe storms and spring tide flooding cause severe damage to the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands with severe flooding in Zeeland - North Sea Flood of 1953. * February 5 - The movie ''Peter Pan (1953 movie)'' premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City). * February 11 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. * February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. * February 18 - The first 3-D film, ''Bwana Devil'' opens. * February 19 - Censorship: Georgia (U.S. state) approves the first literature censorship board in the United States * February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA. ===March-April=== * March 1 - After an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. * March 1 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle * March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies. * March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. * March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250. * March 25-March 26 – ''Lari Massacre'' in Kenya – Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu * March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. * April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General. * April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced for seven years in prison for alleged organization of Mau Mau Rebellion * April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA. ::Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). [http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/index.html Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid]. ''Nature'' 171, 737-738. ===May=== *May 2 - Hussein of Jordan is crowned King of Jordan. *May 2 - 38-year-old Stanley Matthews finally wins the FA Cup at his third attempt, in the famous 'Matthews Final' * May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk * May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A Fujita scale tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114. * May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour). * May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. * May 29 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. ===June-July=== * June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. * June 8 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives. * June 9 - Central Intelligence Agency Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject. * June 9 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94. * June 13 - Hungary Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy. * June 17 - Workers Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. * June 18 - Egypt declares a republic * June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg * June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint (Michigan) * July 10 – Soviet official paper ''Pravda'' announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD * July 26 - Fidel Castro leads a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, sparking the Cuban Revolution. * July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement. ===August-October=== * August 5 - Operation Big Switch, operation to repatriate prisoners of war after the Korean War * August 7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803. * August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5. * August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see: Operation Ajax). * September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Union Central Committee. * September 26 - Rationing of sugar ends in the United Kingdom * October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory. *October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17) * October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York. * October 30 - Cold War: US 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 communism threat. ===November-December=== * November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel * November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. * November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax. * November 25 - England v Hungary (1953) at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home * November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu * December 8 - US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City * December 23 – Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed * December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River * December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars). ==Year in topic== * 1953 in film **From Here to Eternity **Julius Caesar (1953 movie) **The Robe * 1953 in literature **Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published **Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury * 1953 in music **Elvis Presley records for the first time * 1953 in rail transport ** The first Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC, or "piggyback") equipment enters service on the Southern Pacific Railroad. * 1953 in sports **April 16th - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup, defeating Boston Bruins winning the series 4 games to 1, with a score of 1-0, in the first overtime (sport) at 1:22 (minutes:seconds) * 1953 in television **January 19 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucille Ball give birth **February 18 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955. **March 25 - CBS concedes victory to RCA in the war over color television standards. **April 3 - TV Guide is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000 **May 25 - KUHT in Houston, becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station **The Tonight Show begins as a local New York variety show. **August 30 - The first publicly announced experimental broadcast in compatible color is presented: NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie. **October 19 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius La Rosa on the air. **November 22 - RCA airs the first commercial program in compatible color: ''The Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor,'' by special permission of the FCC. **December 24 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program. **December 17 - The Federal Communications Commission reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/NTSC color system **Japanese television goes on the air for the first time *1953 in theater **July 13 - First lines of the first play produced by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Richard III (play)) are spoken. ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball relief pitcher * January 10 - Pat Benatar, singer * January 10 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer * January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor * January 21 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur * January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director * January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark * February 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk) * February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1998) * February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress * February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor * February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure * February 11 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut * February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic * February 21 - William Petersen, actor * February 25 - José María Aznar, Spain politician ===March-May=== * March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist * March 6 - Jan Kjærstad, Norway author * March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author * March 12 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor * March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress * March 16 - Richard Stallman, Free software proponent * March 23 - Chaka Khan, singer * March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor * April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director * April 11 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium * April 11 - Andrew Wiles, mathematician * April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, Science Fiction writer, Libertarian activist * May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * May 15 - George Brett, Baseball Hall of Famer * May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer * May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor (''Remington Steele'', James Bond) * May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress * May 24 - Alfred Molina, actor * May 26 - Michael Portillo, politician * May 29 - Danny Elfman, (composer) * May 30 - Colm Meaney, Ireland actor * May 11 - Rohit Savaram, Guntur/Indian Social Worker ===June-August=== * June 6 - Robert Bruce Thompson, American author * June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer * June 13 - Tim Allen, actor * June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government * July 14 - Bebe Buell, model, singer, Playmate for November, 1974 * July 15 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president of Haiti * July 15 - Mila Pivnicki, First Lady of Canada * July 29 - Geddy Lee, musician with Rush (band) * August 5 - Rick Mahler, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005) * August 11 - Hulk Hogan, United States professional wrestler * August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician * August 19 - Benoit Regent, French film actor * August 28 - Gates McFadden, actress ===October-December=== * October 2 - Brandon Wilson, author, explorer * October 7 - Christopher Norris, actress * October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, actor * October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician * October 12 - Les Dennis, comedian and television presenter * October 16 - Terrence John Mason, United States violinist * October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, actor * October 27 - Robert Picardo, actor * October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, United States actor * October 31 - John M. Young,United Kingdom [British] Rehab Therapist * November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France of France * November 18 - Alan Moore, comic book writer, writer, performer, magician * November 19 - Robert Beltran, actor * November 28 - Ben Bolt, American guitarist * November 29 - Alex Grey, artist * December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player * December 8 - Kim Basinger, actress and Oscar winner * December 13 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer * December 30 - Meredith Vierra, talk show host ==Deaths== * January 1 - Hank Williams, American country music musician * January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia * March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner * March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer, producer * March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer * March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader * March 24 - Mary of Teck, formerly Mary of Teck, widow of King George V of the United Kingdom * March 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b. 1887) * May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler * July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883) * July 29 - Richard Pearse , New Zealander airplane pioneer * August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player * September 2 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, United States Medal of Honor recipient * October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer * October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (b. 1912) * October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867) * November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870) * November 8 - John van Melle, South African author * November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author * November 21 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893) * November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright * November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor * November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet * December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894) ===Unknown date=== * T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Frits Zernike * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann * Nobel Prize in literature - Winston Churchill * Nobel Prize/Peace - George Catlett Marshall 1953 la:1953 simple:1953
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== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:26, 7 May 2004 (UTC) ---- ''* March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.'' Which event is meant by ''succeeds''? Malenkov was appointed the Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR by a common meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet of Minsters of the USSR, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 5, 1953, before Stalin's official death time. He was not appointed the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Soviet Union (there was no position called First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). He was and remained until March 14 one of the Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Soviet Union. On March 15 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR officially elected him the Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR. User:Andres 12:18, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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