First Narcotics Anonymous Meeting in Southern California – August 17, 1953

U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Date: September 12, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 12 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay…

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War. Date: July 26, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July…

Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000. Date: April 27, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…

An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes. Date: June 8, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 8 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953First Chevrolet Corvette Rolls Off Assembly Line in Flint,…

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) More events from 1953North Sea Flood Kills 2,100 in Netherlands and UK, January 31, 1953Winston Churchill Knighted…

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 → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…