WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1953
Find out what all happened February to June 1953

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

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. (19. June 1953)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94. (9. June 1953)

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

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)

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

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

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt. (18. June 1953)