WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1953
Find out what all happened June to October 1953

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

Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. (7. July 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)

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 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)

Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (13. September 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 Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt. (18. June 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)

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)

Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. (26. June 1953)

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

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

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)

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

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