First Narcotics Anonymous Meeting in Southern California – August 17, 1953
Date: August 17, 1953
Date: August 17, 1953
Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. Date: January 19, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 19 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Beecher, Michigan F5…
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 β π Other events on June 17 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Andhra…
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 β π Other events on March 5 π Events on this day in 1953 π 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 β π Other events on May 29 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Canadian Pacific…
Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Date: September 7, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 7 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Fidel Castroβs History Will Absolve Me Speech and Sentence, October 16,…
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks. Date: October 16, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 16 π Events on this day in 1953 π On…