WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1953
Find out what all happened May to July 1953

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

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

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)

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

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

The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. (30. June 1953)

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

The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. (8. June 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)

Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. (4. May 1953)

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

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

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

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)

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