Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 - 1953 - 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
Events
- January 7 - President Harry Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb
- January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia
- January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
- January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
- January 31, February 1 - North Sea flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands and 307 in the United Kingdom.
- February 5 - The movie Peter Pan[?] premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
- February 11 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
- February 18 - The first 3D film[?], Bwana Devil opens.
- February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
- February 28 - James Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA
- March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies.
- March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier[?] and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
- March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
- April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
- April 25 - Francis Crick and James Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix[?] structure of DNA.
- May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake[?], California Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet[?] at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
- May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
- May 29 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing[?] perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.
- June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
- June 17 - Workers Uprising[?] in East Germany.
- October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
- December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars) .
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1953 in film
- 1953 in literature
- Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published
- 1953 in music
- Elvis Presley records for the first time
- 1953 in sports
- 1953 in television
- January 19 - 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth
- February 18 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.
- March 25 - CBS concedes victory to RCA in the war over color television standards.
- April 3 - TV Guide is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000
- May 25 - KUHT in Houston, becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station
- The Tonight Show begins as a local New York variety show.
- August 30 - NBC's Kukla, Fran, and Ollie[?] Show is broadcast in color
- October 19 - Arthur Godfrey[?] fires Julius La Rosa[?] on the air.
- November - RCA tests its compatible color TV system on the air for the first time with a telecast of the Colgate Comedy Hour.
- December 24 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program.
- December 17 - The FCC reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/NTSC color system
- Japanese television goes on the air for the first time
Births
- January 10 - Pat Benatar[?], singer
- January 10 - Bobby Rahal[?], automobile racer
- January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr.[?], actor
- January 21 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur
- January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director
- February 7 - Lige Curry[?], musician (P Funk)
- February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress
- February 11 - Philip Anglim[?], actor.
- February 11 - Stephen D Thorne[?], astronaut.
- February 11 - Alan Rubin[?] music figure.
- February 17 - Norman Pace[?], actor, comic
- February 21 - William Petersen[?], actor
- February 25 - José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- March 12 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor
- March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
- March 16 - Richard Stallman, Free software proponent
- March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
- March 23 - Chaka Khan[?], singer
- April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld[?], producer, director
- April 22 - Frank Netzel[?] Political activist
- May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer
- May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor
- May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
- May 26 - Michael Portillo, politician
- May 29 - Danny Elfman (composer)
- May 30 - Colm Meaney, actor
- June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer
- June 13 - Tim Allen, actor
- July 29 - Geddy Lee of Rush, musician
- October 9 - Tony Shalhoub[?], actor
- October 16 - Terrence John Mason[?], American violinist
- October 22 - Jeff Goldblum[?], actor
- November 18 - Alan Moore, comicbook writer, writer, performer, magician
Deaths
- March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
- March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
- March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
- March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz[?], writer, producer
- March 24 - Queen Mary the Dowager Queen Mother, formerly Mary of Teck, widow of King George V of the United Kingdom
- March 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete
- September 2 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
- October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer
- November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
- November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
- November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
- November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
- Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike
- Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger[?]
- Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann[?]
- Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Peace - George Catlett Marshall
Books
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