Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. Date: December 9, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. Date: December 8, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in…
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. Date: November 30, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 30 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
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 remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. Date: November 17, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 17 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Cambodia gains independence from France. Date: November 9, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 9 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. Date: October 30, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 30 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Date: October 29, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 29 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published. Date: October 19, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 19 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
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 → 📅 Other events on October 16 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On…