WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened April to September 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)

Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. (26. June 1953)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (24. April 1953)

Fighting in the Korean War ends when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. (27. July 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)

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

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

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

Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement (26. July 1953)