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Gerald Durrell's first book, The Overloaded Ark. Lawrence Durrell's book Reflections on a Marine Venus. Islwyn Ffowc Elis's Welsh novel Cysgod y Cryman; Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. L. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between. C. S. Lewis' novel The Silver Chair. Evelyn Waugh's novel Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near ...
6 January – The Broadcasting Council for Wales meets for the first time. [1]2 June – The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is broadcast on the BBC Home Service and the BBC Light Programme, with seven hours of coverage provided; [2] [3] John Snagge is one of the commentators.
May 12 – Neil Astley, English author, poet and academic; May 19 – Victoria Wood, English comedian and writer (died 2016) July 9 – Thomas Ligotti, American horror writer; July 29 – Frank McGuinness, Irish dramatist, poet and novelist; August 1 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author; August 10 – Mark Doty, American poet and ...
2 June – The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is televised in the UK on the BBC Television Service. [2] Sales of TV sets rise sharply in the weeks leading up to the event. It is also one of the earliest broadcasts to be deliberately recorded for posterity and continues to exist in its entirety.
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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.
The 1953 Yugoslav Constitutional Law, a set of constitutional amendments, came into force in Yugoslavia. Among other things, this established a Federal People's Assembly with two houses: a Federal Chamber, directly representing the regions, and a Chamber of Producers, representing economic enterprises and worker groups.