WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened June to November 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)

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

Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. (30. November 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)

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

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

Cambodia gains independence from France. (9. November 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)

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)

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

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

British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. (27. October 1953)

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

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

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

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