Events That Happened in 1953

1953 Events

1953 David Bowie's family moves to suburb of Bromley, Kent
David Bowie was born David Robert Hayward-Jones in Brixton, London to parents who were married in September 1947 shortly after his birth. His mother Margaret Mary "Peggy" (née Burns), of ...
1953 'Fahrenheit 451' is Published
The book expands the concept of a short story that Bradbury wrote in 1947 under the titled “Bright Phoenix,” which was published in a revised form in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Ficti...
1953 Ford Popular is First Produced
The Ford Popular is best known as a car from Ford built in England between 1953 and 1962. When launched, it was Britain's lowest priced car. The name Popular was also used by Ford to des...
1953 Frank Sinatra signs with Capitol Records
In 1953, Sinatra signed with Capitol Records, where he worked with many of the finest musical arrangers of the era, most notably Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May. Sinatra rein...
1953 "Genevieve" Is Released
Genevieve is a 1953 British film directed by Henry Cornelius and starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples in a car race. The musical score was co...
1953 'Go Tell it on the Mountain' is Published
Go Tell It on the Mountain is filled with biblical references that evoke the spirit of the black church and a realism that brings to life the Harlem of the 1930s, a northern ghetto whose ...
1953 Israel Establishes Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יד ושם‎ also spelled Yad VaShem; "Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority") is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust establish...
1953 Mercedes-Benz W120/121 is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz W120 and W121 "Ponton" cars were produced from 1953 through 1962. They were sold under the "180" and "190" model names. The Ponton models were replaced by the W110 "Fint...
1953 Porsche 550 is First Produced
The Porsche 550 was a sports car produced by Porsche from 1953-1956. Inspired by the Porsche 356 which was created by Ferry Porsche, and some spyder prototypes built and raced by Walter ...
1953 Porsche 597 is First Produced
The Porsche 597 Jagdwagen (roughly translated as "hunting car") was a light military vehicle, designed to cover approximately the same remit as the Jeep, Kübelwagen and Land-Rover. Ori...
1953
to 1961
Richard Nixon Serves as Vice President
In part because of his reputation as an ardent anti-communist, 39-year-old Nixon was selected by Republican party nominee General Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the Vice Presidential candidat...
1953 'The Adventures of Augie March' is Published
Augie comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in...
1953 The Silver Chair published
The Silver Chair is part of The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels written by C. S. Lewis. It was the fourth book published and is the sixth book chronologically. It i...
1953 Volvo Duett is First Produced
The Duett is an automobile from Volvo that was in production from 1953 to 1969. The name Duett was intended to signify to a car that could be used as a delivery vehicle during the week a...
1953 Jan Ronald Reagan Appears as Dan McCloud in "Tropic Zone"
With the help of American pilot Tapachula Sam, Elena Escobar, a nightclub entertainer, smuggles injured Dan McCloud out of the Central American nation of Guatura in Sam's plane. Although ...
1953 Jan 13 Joseph Stalin Alleges 'Doctors Plot' To Assassinate Soviet Leaders
Shortly before he died on March 5, 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin accused nine doctors, six of them Jews, of plotting to poison and kill the Soviet leadership. The innocent men were a...
1953 Jan 20 Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States
The Republican Party successfully promoted the candidacy of the popular General of the Army in the 1952 election over the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson. The oath of office was ad...
1953 Jan 30 North Sea Flood of 1953
A storm formed south of Iceland on January 30th, 1953 and it was not a cause for concern at the time because the barometric pressure was not unusually low. Hurricane-force winds blowing f...
1953 Jan 31 MV Princess Victoria Sinks
A car ferry has sunk in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales in living memory claiming the lives of more than 130 passengers and crew. The Princess Victoria, a British Railways car ...
1953 Feb 5 Peter Pan is released
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Wa...
1953 Feb 5 Ronald Reagan Appears in "The Ford Television Theatre" - Season 1, Episode 19: The First Born
Ford Theatre (spelled Ford Theater for the radio version) is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times, the televisio...
1953 Feb 25 "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" Is Released
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (released as Monsieur Hulot's Holiday in the UK and as Mr. Hulot's Holiday in the USA), is one of Jacques Tati's most famous films, gaining an international reput...
1953 Mar Agatha Christie publishes After the Funeral
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and pl...
1953 Mar
to 1953 Jul
Battle of Pork Chop Hill
The Battle of Pork Chop Hill comprises a pair of related Korean War infantry battles during the spring and summer of 1953. These were fought while the U.S. and the Communist Chinese and K...
1953 Mar 'Scrambled Eggs Super' is Published
"And so," he informs his friend Liz, "I decided that, just for a change, I'd scramble a new kind of egg on the range." We're off on an epic journey to parts (and birds) unknown, all told ...
1953 Mar 5 Joseph Stalin Dies
At the end of January 1953 Stalin's personal physician Miron Vovsi (cousin of Solomon Mikhoels who was assassinated in 1948 at the orders of Stalin) was arrested within the frame of the s...
1953 Mar 10 "Lili" Is Released
Lili (1953) is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the m...
1953 Mar 16 Richard Stallman Is Born
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated to "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GN...
1953 Mar 18 Indiana Beats Kansas in Final Four
The 1953 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....
1953 Mar 19 25th Academy Awards
The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best movies of 1952, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, ...
1953 Mar 22 "I Confess" Is Released
I Confess (1953) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspe...
1953 Apr 9
to 1953 Apr 12
 Ben Hogan wins the 17th Masters Tournament
Scoring four rounds of 70 or better, Ben Hogan broke the Masters Tournament scoring record by five strokes with a 14-under-par 274. The record stood for 12 years.
1953 Apr 16 Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup
The 1953 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens. Boston was making its first appearance in the Final since the 1946 Final....
1953 Apr 23 "Shane" Is Released
Shane is a 1953 western film produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. The film stars Alan ...
1953 Apr 30 Warner Robins Tornadoes
A series of tornadoes in Peach, Houstoun, Marion, Twiggs and Bibb Counties left 310 people injured, 20 people dead (some sources say 19) and more than 15 million dollars in property damag...
1953 May 4 Ernest Hemingway Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Literature
Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel The Old Man and the Sea. He wrote his publisher the same day, saying he had finished the book and that it was the best writing he had ever done....
1953 May 13 Ronald Reagan Appears as Frame Johnson in "Law and Order"
Having cleaned up Tombstone, marshal Frame Johnson quits after an attempted lynching, and hopes to settle down on a ranch near Cottonwood with his sweetheart Jeannie. Before he can do so,...
1953 May 23 Eunice Kennedy Marries Sargent Shriver
On May 23, 1953, she married Sargent Shriver in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, New York.[4] Her husband served as the U.S. Ambassador to France f...
1953 May 28
to 1953 May 29
 Battle of the Hook
The third Battle of the Hook was a battle of the Korean War that took place between a United Nations force, consisting mostly of British troops, supported on their flanks by American and ...
1953 Jun Otis Air Force Base Incident
In June 1953, Pilot Captain Suggs along with his radar operator Robert Markhoff were flying an intercept mission with a F-94C Starfire of a UFO that was seen over the alert area at Otis A...
1953 Jun 3 Alexander Cartwright is Officially Credited by the United States Congress with Inventing the Modern Game of Baseball
In the early twentieth century, the invention of baseball was attributed to Abner Doubleday, widely considered a myth by later sports historians. Cartwright was a bookseller in Manhattan,...
1953 Jun 17 "Pickup On South Street" Is Released
Pickup on South Street is writer-director Samuel Fuller's 1953 film noir released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. In June...
1953 Jun 18 Coretta Scott Marries Martin Luther King Jr.
When he proposed, she deliberated for six months before saying yes, and they were married in the garden of her parents' house on June 18, 1953. The 350 guests, elegant big-city folks from...
1953 Jun 19 'The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.' is Released
Because here's a film, now more than 50 years old, that deserves just as much praise as Pixar, one every bit as magical as Up, albeit far, far stranger. The only film ever scripted by The...
1953 Jul 18 Elvis Presley records first songs
On July 18, 1953, Presley went to Sun Records' Memphis Recording Service to record "My Happiness" with "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," supposedly as a present for his mother although...
1953 Jul 18 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Is Released
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Cha...
1953 Jul 18 Ronald Reagan Appears in "Medallion Theatre" - Season 1, Episode 2: A Job for Jimmy Valentine
Valentine is a smooth and gifted young safecracker who can break into vaults using only the touch of his magic fingers.
1953 Jul 23 The Sword and the Rose is released
The Sword and the Rose, (first released on July 23, 1953) is a United States family and adventure film, produced by Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary...
1953 Jul 26 Attack on Moncada Barracks in Cuba
As discontent over the Batista coup grew, Castro abandoned his law practice and formed an underground organization of supporters, including his brother, Raúl, and Mario Chanes de Armas. T...
1953 Jul 27 Korean Armistice Agreement
The 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory. Fifty years on, the truce is still all that technically prevents North Korea and the US ...