WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1953
Find out what all happened January to June 1953

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

Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. (19. February 1953)

A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. (3. March 1953)

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

A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom (31. January 1953)

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. (13. April 1953)

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

James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). (28. February 1953)

Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. (3. January 1953)

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

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

Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. (16. April 1953)

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

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)

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. (8. 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)

The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. (29. April 1953)

North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland. (1. February 1953)

The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. (6. January 1953)