WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1953
Find out what all happened January to May 1953

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. (8. April 1953)

James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). (28. February 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)

The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. (6. January 1953)

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

A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom (31. January 1953)

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

In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people. (30. April 1953)

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

Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c. (15. May 1953)

The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel. (11. February 1953)

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. (13. April 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)

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

A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. (3. March 1953)

Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test. (25. May 1953)

Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein. (15. February 1953)

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

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday. (29. May 1953)

Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA. (25. April 1953)