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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

• January 19, 1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• February 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
• March 1, 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• April 16, 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
• April 27, 1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• May 4, 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• June 8, 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• September 13, 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• October 30, 1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States’ arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
• December 6, 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

Who Were Born On 1953?

• April 26, 1953 – David Reddaway, Canadian-English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Canada
• May 24, 1953 – Nell Campbell, Australian-American actress and singer
• June 16, 1953 – Valerie Mahaffey, American actress and producer
• July 13, 1953 – Larry Gomes, Tobagan cricketer
• August 17, 1953 – Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach
• August 29, 1953 – David Boaz American businessman and author
• October 20, 1953 – Richard McWilliam, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (d. 2013)
• October 24, 1953 – Mike Papantonio, American lawyer and radio host
• November 4, 1953 – Marvel Williamson, American nurse and academic
• December 14, 1953 – Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer