Date: July 27, 1953
Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier. Date: March 5, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday. Date: May 29, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Winston Churchill…
CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. Date: April 13, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 13 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Milwaukee Brewery Strike Begins as 7,100 Workers Walk Out May 14, 1953Devil’s Island Penal Colony…
Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman. Date: May…
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 1953Fidel Castro’s History…
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. 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 1953Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 Published, October…