1953

Summary

1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.

From top to bottom, left to right: Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels during the Mau Mau rebellion; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest; Coup supporters celebrate victory of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état; The wreckage of the KA locomotive in the Tangiwai disaster; Elizabeth proceeding past the Coronation Chair in her Coronation; Soviet T-34-85 in East Berlin during the East German uprising of 1953; the state funeral procession of Joseph Stalin; Aftermath of the North Sea flood of 1953.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1953 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1953
MCMLIII
Ab urbe condita2706
Armenian calendar1402
ԹՎ ՌՆԲ
Assyrian calendar6703
Baháʼí calendar109–110
Balinese saka calendar1874–1875
Bengali calendar1360
Berber calendar2903
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 2 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2497
Burmese calendar1315
Byzantine calendar7461–7462
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4650 or 4443
    — to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4651 or 4444
Coptic calendar1669–1670
Discordian calendar3119
Ethiopian calendar1945–1946
Hebrew calendar5713–5714
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2009–2010
 - Shaka Samvat1874–1875
 - Kali Yuga5053–5054
Holocene calendar11953
Igbo calendar953–954
Iranian calendar1331–1332
Islamic calendar1372–1373
Japanese calendarShōwa 28
(昭和28年)
Javanese calendar1884–1885
Juche calendar42
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4286
Minguo calendarROC 42
民國42年
Nanakshahi calendar485
Thai solar calendar2496
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
2079 or 1698 or 926
    — to —
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
2080 or 1699 or 927

Events edit

January edit

February edit

March edit

April edit

 
April 25: DNA double helix described.

May edit

 
May 29: Mount Everest conquered.

June edit

 
June 2: Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, crowned.
 
June 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed.

July edit

August edit

September edit

October edit

November edit

December edit

Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January edit

 
Gary Johnson
 
Pat Benatar
 
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

February edit

 
Mary Steenburgen
 
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
 
Michael Bolton
 
José María Aznar
 
Ian Khama

March edit

 
Ron Jeremy
 
Isabelle Huppert
 
Lenín Moreno
 
Chaka Khan

April edit

 
Guy Verhofstadt
 
Linda Martin
 
Rick Moranis

May edit

 
Tony Blair
 
Alex Van Halen
 
Norodom Sihamoni
 
Pierce Brosnan
 
Alfred Molina
 
Danny Elfman

June edit

 
Johnny Clegg
 
Ivo Sanader
 
Tim Allen
 
Xi Jinping
 
Cyndi Lauper
 
Ingo Kühl

July edit

 
Sangay Ngedup
 
Lawrence Gonzi
 
Leon Spinks
 
Jean Bertrand-Aristide
 
Mila Mulroney
 
Najib Abdul Razak

August edit

 
Hulk Hogan
 
Carlos Mesa
 
James Horner
 
Wolfgang Hohlbein
 
Herta Müller
 
Peter Horton

September edit

October edit

 
Tico Torres
 
Greg Evigan
 
Tito Jackson
 
Robert Picardo

November edit

 
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
 
Dominique de Villepin
 
Kevin Nealon
 
Steve Bannon
 
Boris Grebenshchikov
 
Curtis Armstrong

December edit

 
Kim Basinger
 
John Malkovich
 
Bill Pullman
 
Leonel Fernández
 
Thomas Bach

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Hank Williams

February edit

 
Francesco Saverio Nitti

March edit

 
Joseph Stalin
 
Klement Gottwald

April edit

 
King Carol II of Romania

May edit

 
Django Reinhardt

June edit

 
Norman Ross

July edit

 
Dumarsais Estimé

August edit

 
Jānis Mendriks

September edit

 
Edwin Hubble

October edit

 
Hjalmar Hammarskjold

November edit

 
King Ibu Saud

December edit

 
Robert Andrews Millikan

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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