15 events found for 1953
Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars bu
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
An F5 tornado struck Flint and Beecher, Michigan, causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and $19 million in damage during
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on boar
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet
In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended a few hours before the signing of the…
An armistice was signed (pictured) to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the division of Korea…
An armistice was signed to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the division of Korea indefinite by…
Alfred C. Glassell Jr. caught a black marlin weighing 1,560 lb (710 kg) (pictured) off the coast of Peru, setting the…
First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central…
Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first…
Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces attacked the village of Qibya on the West…