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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.
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.
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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)
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 economic history (6 C, 2 P) 1953 in education (4 C, 1 P) 1953 in the environment (8 C, 1 P) 1953 events by month (19 C) F. 1953 festivals (3 C, 2 P)
The 83rd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1953, until January 3, 1955, during the last two weeks of the Truman administration, with the remainder spanning the first two years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.
The 1953 Guatemalan parliamentary election ended with the Revolutionary Action Party as the biggest party. [27] The first elections to the new Assembly of French Polynesia took place, after it replaced the Representative Assembly. The Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People (RDPT) won a majority. [28]