WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1953
Find out what all happened April to October 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)

The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. (12. August 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)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. (7. July 1953)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. (28. August 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)

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)

"The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York City (12. October 1953)

The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44. (17. July 1953)

LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah. (21. September 1953)

Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. (12. August 1953)

The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. (5. October 1953)