Tangiwai Disaster: New Zealand Train Bridge Collapse Kills 151, December 24, 1953
Date: December 24, 1953
Date: December 24, 1953
Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. Date: June 26, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 26 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Winston Churchill Receives Nobel Prize in Literature, December 10,…
Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA. Date: April 25, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 25 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Winston…
Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia. Date: January 14, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 14 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Joseph Stalin Suffers Stroke and Collapses, Dies Later March 1, 1953First U.S. 3D TV Broadcast…
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 1953Eisenhower Denies…
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 → 📅 Other events on January 19 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953U.S. First Nuclear…
Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Date: August 19, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 19 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Pravda Accuses…