French Union Withdraws from Operation Camargue Against Viet Minh, August 10, 1953
Date: August 10, 1953
Date: August 10, 1953
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. Date: May 18, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 18 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Eisenhower Approves NSC 162/2 Nuclear Deterrent Policy, October 30, 1953Queen Elizabeth II Coronation First…
Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends. Date: September 26, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 26 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Arizona Governor Pyle Orders Short Creek Anti-Polygamy Raid, July 26, 1953Jacqueline Cochran First Woman to Break Sound…
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 β π Other events on May 29 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Piltdown Man…
Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter. Date: September 21, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 21 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Canadian Pacific De Havilland Comet Crashes in Karachi, 1953 March…
BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Date: October 29, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 29 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Pit River Bridge Rescue Photographed by Virginia Schau, May 3, 1953Worldβs First Stack Interchange Opens in Los…
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…