WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened July to December 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)

The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. (17. November 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)

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

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

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

The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. (21. November 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)

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

Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. (28. 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 islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. (12. August 1953)

Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. (9. December 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 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. (2. November 1953)

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

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

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

British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. (15. October 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)