WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened August to December 1953

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

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

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

Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. (30. October 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)

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

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. (8. December 1953)

Cambodia gains independence from France. (9. November 1953)

Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita. (6. December 1953)

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. (2. November 1953)

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

Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. (28. August 1953)

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

Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. (9. December 1953)

Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C. (10. October 1953)

Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. (24. December 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)