WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened March to 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)

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)

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129. (18. June 1953)

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

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

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

Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. (24. December 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)

Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. (28. August 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 documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. (5. October 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)

Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (19. August 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)

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

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised. (2. June 1953)

Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital. (1. November 1953)

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

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