WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1953
Find out what all happened March to October 1953

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. (19. June 1953)

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. (1. March 1953)

An earthquake hit western Turkey, killing 250 people. (18. March 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)

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

Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA. (25. April 1953)

Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War. (27. April 1953)

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

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

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

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

Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. (10. April 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)

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

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 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)