1953

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1952 1953 1954

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Events

  • Republic of Egypt is proclaimed by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  • House Concurrent Resolution 108 declares a sense of Congress that Federal supervision of Native American reservations should be terminated.
  • Ugetsu directed by Kenji Mizoguchi is released. Wins Venice Film Festival Prize.
  • Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber co-founds the Paris weekly L'Express.
  • Arthur Miller's play The Crucible opens on Broadway.
  • Arthur C. Clarke publishes Childhood's End.
  • China's population is 587.96 million.
  • Shipyard Scandal erupts in Japan.

Timeline

January

  • January: U.S. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon leaves Republican Party to protest its domination by conservatives. He continued to vote for a GOP majority leader to honor his election as a Republican.
  • January: Harold Bauer dies of MDA overdose in U.S. Army drug experiment.
  • January 3: Evelyn Lincoln begins working as John F. Kennedy's personal secretary.
  • January 5: Future CIA Director George Tenet is born.
  • January 7: U.S. President Harry Truman announces U.S. has the hydrogen bomb in his State of the Union address.
  • January 20: Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated as President of the United States. Richard Nixon becomes Vice President.

February

  • February 19: Georgia approve s first U.S. literature censorship board.
  • February 26: Allen W. Dulles appointed the fifth Director of CIA. Probably doesn't hurt that his brother is Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

March

  • March 5: Joesph Stalin dies.
  • March 5: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida dissolves parliament once again after receiving a vote of no-confidence.
  • March 14: Nikita Khrushchev succeeded Georgi Malenkov as secretary of the CPSU.
  • March 26: Republican U.S. President Eisenhower offers increased military aid for the French colonial war in Vietnam. Anti-colonialism is for Democrats.

April

  • April 3: Senate Minority Leader Democratic Senator from Texas Lyndon B. Johnson leads eight Congressional leaders in refusing the idea of a joint resolution for the U.S. air force to save the French forces besieged at Dien Bien Phu unless the military effort is part of a larger Allied effort.
  • April 19: Demand for a warrant to be issued for the arrest of Eisaku Sato Secretary-General of the Liberal Party in Japan, as part of the Shipyard Scandal, but Prime Minister Yoshida uses his authority to postpone arrest.
  • April 27: Jari Askins is born.

May

June

  • June 4: Atomic bomb test at Yucca Flats, Nevada, equivalent to 50,000 tons of TNT.
  • June 26: Two Buddhist orders in Cambodia declare a holy war against French Army.

July

  • July 3: New French Socialist government of Joseph Laniel is sworn into office.
  • July 14: Paris police kill six and wound 44 peaceful demonstrators to stop a protest in favor of Algerian independence.
  • July 24: Claire McCaskill is born in Rolla, Missouri.
  • July 27: Ceasefire is signed, ending the Korean War.

August

  • August: 30 year old Sunni elite Rashid Karami becomes Prime Minister of Lebanon.
  • August 16: Attempted coup by Iranian military officers against Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadeq fails.
  • August 19: In response to the nationalization of the oil industry by the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, the CIA launches Operation Ajax which reinstates Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to the throne.
  • August 22: France closes Devil's Island penal colony. Other uses will be found for French Guyana.

September

  • September 12: Senator John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the daughter of John Vernon Bouvier III and Janet Lee Bouvier.
  • September 13: Nikita Khrushchev is elected First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
  • September 22: Marie Ségolène Royal is born in Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal.

October

  • October 14: U.S. President Eisenhower promises to fire as communists any federal workers taking the 5th amendment. Jovial soldier proves himself a tower of jello in the face of McCarthism. Willingly sacrifices civil liberties.
  • October 15: Britain conducts second open-air nuclear weapons test (Totem Round 1), in Australia at the Woomera Rocket Range.
  • October 27: Britain conducts third open-air nuclear weapons test (Totem Round 2), in Australia at the Woomera Rocket Range.

November

  • November: Army biochemist Frank Olsen commits suicide after being given LSD by the CIA.
  • 10th Special Forces Groups establishes its first overseas base in the Flint Kaserne at Bad Tölz in Bavaria.
  • November 9: Cambodia wins formal independence from France.

December

  • December 5: Italian and Yugoslav troops withdrawn from disputed Trieste.
  • December 8: Pres. Eisenhower announces the Atoms for Peace program in a speech at the UN. Helps several countries start their own "peaceful" nuclear energy programs which provide the infrastructure for building nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan. Well done Ike!
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