1953

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958

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Births

• February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor.

• February 11 - Stephen D Thorne, astronaut.

• February 11 - Alan Rubin music figure.

• Richard Stallman

• Tony Blair, UK politician

Deaths

• November 8 - John van Melle, South African author

• November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author

• Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader

Events

• February 11 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple.

• February 11 - USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.

• Change of US presidency from Harry S Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

• Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike

• Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger

• Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann

• Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

• Peace - George Catlett Marshall