WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1953
Find out what all happened February to May 1953

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

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

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. (1. March 1953)

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

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

North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland. (1. February 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)

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

The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. (11. May 1953)

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

Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War. (27. April 1953)

American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia. (16. May 1953)

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

Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (24. 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)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. (11. February 1953)

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