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1953 was a common year ... Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (d. 1986) [35] ... American Major League Baseball ...
January 22 – The Crucible, a historical drama by Arthur Miller written as an allegory of McCarthyism, opens on Broadway. February 1 – WEEK-TV begins broadcasting in Peoria, Illinois. February 5 – Walt Disney's 14th animated film, Peter Pan, premieres in Chicago. It is Disney's final film to be distributed by RKO.
Among the dead are: Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major Maynard Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down. [2] 31 January–1 February – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 307 people on the east coast of Britain, with more at sea. [3]
1953 – Shah of Iran returns to power in CIA-orchestrated coup known as Operation Ajax 1954 – The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event nationally televised in color 1954 – Detonation of Castle Bravo , a 15 megaton Hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons, it vaporized ...
December 1953 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) This page was last ...
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. ... it was important to be ...
Some weather events have been so deadly and destructive that they prompted important changes that still save lives and property today. From Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 1953, 72 years ago tonight, a powerful ...
1953 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1953 in American music (6 P) N. 1953 American novels (78 P) P. 1953 in American politics (4 C, 7 P) S.