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What Events Happened In 1953

Nepal 
 

• Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

Russia 
 

• Death of Stalin

U.S. 
 

• Dweight D Eisenhower President of the United States

U.S. 
 

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450 on 27th April which defined controversial hiring and firing rules for Government Employment

U.S. 
 

• The FBI rounds up communist leaders who were advocating overthrow of the Government

U.S. 
 

• The U.S. Supreme Court gave power to enforce right-to-work laws

Iran 
 

• Shah of Iran is restored to power in Iran with help from the CIA

U.S. 
 

• Dr. Jonas E. Salk, announced a vaccine had been used safely and successfully used in preliminary trials on 90 children and adults as a polio vaccine

UK 
 

• Royal Yacht Britannia Launched

UK 
 

• The strongest storms ever recorded break through flood defenses across the UK leaving 150 dead

UK 
 

• Queen Elizabeth II crowned queen of England on June 2ndin UK

France 
 

• Four million workers go on a massive strike in France

Russia 
 

• The Soviet Union crushes protests against the communist government of East Germany

Netherlands 
 

• North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands

Turkey 
 

• An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250

Kenya 
 

• Jomo Kenyatta the future leader of Kenya is sentenced to seven years hard labour

• Hurricane in South-East Asia - over 1000 dead

UK 
 

• Rationing of sugar ends in the United Kingdom
   

Technology 1953

• Albert Schweitzer was given the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize.
  
   
• The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 in the US
  
   
• New York adopts three color traffic lights
  
   
• The Corvette the all American sports car goes on sale
  
   
• Cigarette Smoking is reported as causing Lung Cancer
  
   
• British Physicist Francis Crick and US Biologist James Watson unveil their famous Double Helix Model of DNA the materials in Chromosomes that control heredity
  
  
  
  Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
  Transistor Radio USA from Texas Instruments 
  
   

Week of January 23, 1953
The armed forces steps up Operation Ouch to rush influenza vaccine to the
American servicemen around the globe.
The Army announces that Gen. James A Van Fleet will be
replaced next month by lt. Gen Maxwell D. Taylor as 8
th
army
Commander in Korea and will retire March 31.
Three North Korean Communist prisoners of war beat an
American soldier to death in a compound on Koje Island. The
soldier, a private, was clearing a barracks of prisoners prior to
taking a head count when he was attacked.
In A Gallup Poll – 78% approve of the job President Eisenhower is doing.
A raging fire breaks out aboard the empress of Canada, which was docked at
Liverpool, England for an overhaul. The $5.5 million liner is a total loss.
The Senate confirms Charles Wilson, Former General Motors auto executive, as
Defense Secretary, despite democratic warnings that the appointment may prove
“quite embarrassing” to President Eisenhower.
Berlin - The desire for freedom brings more than 1000 fugitives from Communism
into Berlin for the 11
th
straight day, raising the January total to 22.792 persons.
The Red press warned that those who ask for asylum in the west would wind up
in jail, the Foreign Legion or perhaps brothels for those eligible.
Another Gallup Poll asks if President Eisenhower continue to be called “Ike”?
47% said yes.
Secretary of State Dulles predicts that the Soviet Russian regime may ultimately
collapse and die of “acute indigestion” caused by its attempts to swallow free
peoples.
Kansas City MO - Harry S. Truman says he feels again
“like a country boy in the big city” as he opens up private
offices and begins the long role of adjustment to the life of
the “Squire of Jackson County.”
Pat Nixon, the Cinderella girl who helped her husband win
the U.s. Vice Presidency, buys and pays for her own
inaugural ball gown. Customarily, the President’s wife and Week of January 23, 1953
Vice President’s wife get their inaugural ball gowns free, as gifts from designers
who in turn, get lost of free advertising.
Sports –
The government opens its anti-trust suit against the National Football League
with a statement that it considered the NFL television restrictions illegal because
they deprive individual clubs of the right to make their own decisions.
Technology –
A new magnetic recording tape, described as “the last major advance in
magnetic tape since the adoption of red oxide as tape material,” is announced by
3M. The new tape more than doubles output provided by the old-style tape and
increases significantly the available signal-to-noise ratio with no increase in
harmonic distortion or tape thickness.
Entertainment news –
Howard Hughes, board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures
Corporation and principal stockholder in the RKO theatres
Corporation, announces his support of efforts by the American
Legion to prevent showings of the Charlie Chaplin picture Week of January 23, 1953 Week of January 23, 1953
“Limelight.” Apparently, Chaplin is being investigated by the legion’s Hollywood
Post Committee on Un-American Activities.
Actor John Agar, arrest Jan 22 on suspicion of drunk driving is sentenced to four
months in the Los Angeles County jail for violation of his probation.
Actress Anne Baxter divorces actor John Hodiak.
MGM which was showing a loss five years ago, is showing
a profit, so says Dore Schary, vice-president in charge of
production at the studio. “I am speaking of the studio
operation. Admittedly the profit is not as yet large, but it
remains a profit as contrasted with a loss. So there is no
cause for needless alarm in connection with our present
position.”
Television news –
NBC reports that Jerry Lewis fell off one of his children’s
scooters and resultant leg damage has caused his doctor to
order him to stay off the leg for several weeks. Jerry is
expected to be on stage in a wheelchair as a result of the
accident while Dean Martin performs as usual Sunday night
on the Colgate Hour.
In addition to his daily WCBS-TV show mornings from 8:30
to 9:30am, Ernie Kovacs is getting a tryout on CBS-TV
Tuesday nights from 8 to 9p – against Milton Berle and Bishop Sheen. Kovacs
rights all his own bits and says he just can’t use other people’s material – he
must do it himself. Says Ernie – “It’s not the actual writing that’s so hard, but the
getting of an idea. I have to think of ten or twelve bits to fill an hour show.”
Monday night television –
CBS – Douglas Edwards news, Perry Como, Lux Video Theatre, I Love Lucy,
Red Buttons Show, Studio One
NBC – Pinky Lee and Martha Stewart, News Caravan, Paul Winchell, Hollywood
Opening Night, Robert Montgomery Presents, dangerous Assignment
ABC – John Daly News Homicide Squad, Perspective, U.S. Army Talent patrol,
Why?
DuMont – The Big Idea For Inventors. Week of January 23, 1953
At the movies –
The Star – Bette Davis
Above and Beyond – Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker
Come Back, Little Sheba – Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth
Mississippi Gambler – Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie
The Band and the Beautiful – Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
The Jazz Singer – Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee
Road to Bali – Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
The Clown – Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Tim Considine. Week of January 23, 1953
Week of January 23, 1953