The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised. Date: June 2, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 2 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
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)
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. Date: May 25, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 25 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. Date: May 18, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Delta Air Lines Flight 318 crashes near Marshall, Texas, killing 19. Date: May 17, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 17 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike. Date: May 14, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 14 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
In the deadliest of a series of tornadoes, an F5 tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas. Date: May 11, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 11 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. Date: May 4, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 4 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
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…