Date: June 2, 1953
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…
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)…
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) More events from 1953Supreme Court Ends D.C. Restaurant Segregation June 8, 1953Ernest Hemingway Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the…
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: December 10, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 10 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953General Electric Dismisses Communist Employees Amid Red Scare, December 9, 1953Pravda Accuses Soviet Doctors…
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 1953CIA Director Allen Dulles Launches Project MKUltra April 13, 1953John F. Kennedy Marries Jacqueline Bouvier…
First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California. Date: August 17, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 17 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1953Eisenhower Denies Rosenberg Clemency Appeals, February 11, 1953Waco F5 Tornado Kills 114 May 11, 1953Winston…