Events Date 1953 P 3 | History by KabAstro

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Oct 14 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia

Event of Interest

Oct 14 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower promises to fire any federal worker taking 5th amendment with regard to communist party affiliation

34th US President and WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oct 14 WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 15 John Patrick's play "Teahouse of the August Moon" premieres in New York
Oct 15 KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 15 WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins

Cuban History

Oct 16 Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)

Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro

Oct 18 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
Oct 18 WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 18 WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 19 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
Oct 19 Dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury is published in the US

Music History

Oct 19 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey

Oct 20 WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 22 Laos gains full independence from France
Oct 23 France grants Laos' sovereignty
Oct 23 German FR applies to NATO
Oct 23 WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
Oct 24 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting

NFL Record

Oct 25 Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles

Oct 25 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die

Music Release

Oct 25 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th Symphony

Oct 25 KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 26 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
Oct 28 Bud Grant of CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
Oct 28 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
Oct 29 A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
Oct 30 Dr Albert Schweitzer and US Army General George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 31 TV broadcasting begins in Belgium
Nov 1 Czech long distance runner Emile Zatopek sets world 10,000m record 29:01.6 & 6 mile mark 28:08.4 in Stara Boleslav, Czech Republic
Nov 1 KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 1 KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 1 WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 2 Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic
Nov 3 "Tokyo Story", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara, is released
Nov 3 MLB Rules Committee restores the sacrifice fly rule, eliminated in 1939; rule says a sacrifice fly is not charged as a time at bat
Nov 4 New baseball balk rule gives the batter option of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk

How to Marry a Millionaire

Nov 5 Film "How to Marry a Millionaire" directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, first to be filmed in CinemaScope; release delayed to allow "The Robe" to debut the format

Nov 5 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Frederik Zernicke
Nov 5 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds

The Sleeping Prince

Nov 5 Terence Rattigan's play "The Sleeping Prince" premieres in London starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

Nov 6 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
Nov 6 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb" premieres
Nov 7 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 8 Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
Nov 9 Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from France, within the French Union
Nov 9 KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 9 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
Nov 10 Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)

Ben-Gurion Resigns

Nov 12 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel

1st Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion

Nov 12 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
Nov 13 Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th String Quartet premieres
Nov 14 WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, Illinois (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 15 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 15 WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 17 St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
Nov 17 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
Nov 17 United States joins the United Nations in condemning Israel's raid on Jordan on October 4, 1953
Nov 18 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
Nov 19 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business

Nixon Visits Hanoi

Nov 19 US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi

Nov 20 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)

Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax

Nov 21 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax

Nov 21 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 23 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Nov 23 WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting

Dodgers Sign Alston

Nov 24 Brooklyn Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954; he signs 23 one-year agreements until his retirement after 1976 season

Nov 25 Earthquake and tsnunami strike Honshu, Japan
Nov 25 Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
Nov 26 KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 26 WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 26 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
Nov 27 Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
Nov 29 American Airlines begins 1st regular commercial NY-LA air service
Nov 29 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 30 Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
Nov 30 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
Dec 1 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold
Dec 1 Red Sox trade for slugger Jackie Jensen, sending pitcher Mickey McDermott and outfielder Tom Umphlett to Washington; Jensen averages 25 HRs a year for his 7 seasons in Boston; AL RBI leader x 3, and AL MVP in 1958
Dec 1 WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
Dec 1 WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 3 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet in Leningrad
Dec 3 US President Dwight Eisenhower criticizes Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party
Dec 3 Webb Pierce records single "In the Jailhouse Now" (Billboard Song of the Year, 1955)
Dec 6 Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
Dec 7 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
Dec 7 WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 8 19th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
Dec 8 Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York
Dec 9 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
Dec 9 Montreal Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) combine for 204 penalty minutes
Dec 10 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 10 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
Dec 11 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station

Yeager Reaches Mach 2.43

Dec 12 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane

Dec 13 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting

Dodgers Sign Koufax

Dec 14 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax

Dec 15 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 16 Charles E. Yeager flies > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
Dec 17 Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad
Dec 17 US Federal Communications Commission approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
Dec 18 KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 18 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 19 KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 20 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
Dec 20 KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 21 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 22 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
Dec 23 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
Dec 23 René Coty elected President of the Republic and the French Union on the 13th ballot [1]
Dec 24 KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 24 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 24 Two fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 in Czechoslovakia
Dec 24 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
Dec 25 Avalanche of lava kills 150 from Ruapehu volcano in New Zealand
Dec 25 KNEV (95.5 The Vibe) radio broadcaster in Reno, Nevada begins broadcasting
Dec 28 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 30 The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.