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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.
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.
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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.
Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in the United Kingdom. [15]The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden was founded.; A new radio series, Partners in Crime, based on the works of Agatha Christie and starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, was launched on the BBC Home Service in the UK.
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The uprising of 1953 in East Germany was brutally suppressed; June 17 was celebrated in West Germany as German Unity Day until after German reunification occurred. [37] Bertolt Brecht continued with rehearsals for the first production of Erwin Strittmatter 's Katzgraben: Szenen aus dem Bauernleben with the Berliner Ensemble , inspiring a ...