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- 1953 -
A retro journey through the news and history of the 1950s

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The Nation 1953

 

1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters)
John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

 

President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary

 

American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

 

Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

 

Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants
Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired


Nobel prizes 1953


Physics – Frits (Frederik) Zernike
Chemistry – Hermann Staudinger
Medicine – Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
Literature – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Peace – George Catlett Marshall

 



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time magazine 1953


Konrad Adenauer
"More dramatically than headline or speech or essay, the music symbolized an amazing story. In 1953, only eight years after the shame, horror and impotence of defeat in mankind's bloodiest war, Germany came back. It was a world power once more. More than any other, the person who brought this about was the stolid old man who stood in Arlington, visibly moved by the strains of his national anthem echoing among the tombstones. He was Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the West German Republic, apostle of United Europe, 1953's Man of the Year." Konrad Adenauer Time Man of the Year

The World 1953

 

 

 

U.N. Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general

 

Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of YugoslaviaYugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)

 

 

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

North Korea and United Nations sign armistice


Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba

 

Josef Stalin buried in Moscow

Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party


Pakistan becomes islamic republic



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