WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened May to September 1953

The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. (8. June 1953)

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

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

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

Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. (12. August 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 first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. (30. June 1953)

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

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)

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)

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

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

Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (13. September 1953)

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