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1953 was a common year ... killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history up to this time, and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100. ...
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.
31 January–1 February – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 307 people on the east coast of Britain, with more at sea. [3] A corvette and a submarine sink at their moorings in HM Dockyard Sheerness. 1 February – Pool petrol, introduced during World War II, is replaced by individual brands.
June 8, 1953: Tornado near Erie, Michigan. Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado killed 115 people in Flint, Michigan (the last in the United States to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado). [20] The US radio drama serial Family Skeleton was broadcast for the first time, on CBS. [21]
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
1953 in the United States by state or territory (53 C) 1953 disestablishments in the United States (41 C, 10 P) 1953 establishments in the United States (56 C, 42 P)
November 20, 1953: Crossfield after Mach 2 flight. The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2.; Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) was a hoax.
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