WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened January to December 1953

Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. (16. April 1953)

Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (6. March 1953)

British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. (15. October 1953)

71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. (19. January 1953)

Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. (3. January 1953)

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. (2. November 1953)

Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. (17. August 1953)

Cambodia gains independence from France. (9. November 1953)

Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement (26. July 1953)

Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. (9. December 1953)

East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. (17. June 1953)

An earthquake hit western Turkey, killing 250 people. (18. March 1953)

Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. (18. May 1953)

Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. (19. February 1953)

The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. (25. May 1953)

Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. (4. May 1953)

Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. (12. August 1953)

BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed. (29. October 1953)

Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. (10. April 1953)

An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes. (8. June 1953)