Date: June 2, 1953
Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. Date: December 9, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Queen Elizabeth II Coronation First Televised British Coronation June 2,…
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. Date: March 1, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 1 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Ernest Hemingway Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the…
Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends. Date: September 26, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 26 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953CIA Director Allen Dulles Launches Project MKUltra April 13, 1953Jacqueline Cochran First Woman to Break Sound Barrier,…
Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. Date: June 17, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 17 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Piltdown…
An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people. Date: March 18, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953First Narcotics Anonymous Meeting in Southern California – August 17, 1953US Midshipman Aircraft Crash Kills…
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. Date: May 25, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 25 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Ernest Hemingway Wins…