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1953 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.
December 18 – Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown are both executed in the Missouri gas chamber after pleading guilty to the Murder and kidnapping of six year old Bobby Greenlease; [5] she is the third woman in history (and last until 2021) to be executed by federal authorities.
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline.
On this day, 53 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned as the monarch of the United Kingdom.
Twenty four years later, there was an East Coast sequel. The Presidents Day II storm left 10 to 30 inches of snow in its wake from the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic to southern New England from ...
1921 – The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years. 1992 – A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo , resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War .
Alaska's interior is well known for brutal cold and 54 years ago today its temperature plunged to America's all-time record low. The temperature hit minus 80 degrees at Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska ...
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Antonius (or, less frequently, year 806 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 53 for this year has been used since the early medieval period , when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.