WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1953
Find out what all happened February to October 1953

British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. (27. October 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)

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

The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. (29. April 1953)

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. (13. April 1953)

The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. (30. June 1953)

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

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

U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. (12. September 1953)

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

Cold War: U.S. 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 communist threat. (30. October 1953)

Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (7. September 1953)

Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid. (26. July 1953)

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

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

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

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

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

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