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1953 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1953 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1953

• February 11, 1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
• April 13, 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• May 16, 1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
• May 25, 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
• June 17, 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• June 18, 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• July 26, 1953 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
• August 17, 1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
• August 19, 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Who Were Born On 1953?

• February 11, 1953 – Philip Anglim, American actor
• April 22, 1953 – Tom Griswold, American radio host
• April 26, 1953 – Moushumi Chatterjee, Indian actress
• May 4, 1953 – Oleta Adams, American singer, pianist, and actress
• June 15, 1953 – Vilma Bardauskienė, Lithuanian long jumper
• October 10, 1953 – Gus Williams, American basketball player
• December 3, 1953 – Franz Klammer, Austrian skier and race car driver
• December 16, 1953 – Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress and screenwriter
• December 17, 1953 – Sally Menke, American film editor (d. 2010)
• December 26, 1953 – Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager