Josip Broz Tito Elected First President of Yugoslavia, January 14, 1953
Date: January 14, 1953
Date: January 14, 1953
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 1953Delta Air Lines Flight 318 Crashes Near Marshall, Texas, Killing 19, May 17, 1953Canadian Pacific…
Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. Date: December 24, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 24 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people. Date: September 16, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Nikita Khrushchev Appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, September 13, 1953Josip Broz Tito…
The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. Date: November 21, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 21 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)…
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 1953Georgy Malenkov Succeeds…
Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter. Date: September 21, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 21 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Crick and Watson Publish DNA Double Helix Discovery, April 25,…