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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 14, 1953 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.
• April 25, 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• May 18, 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• June 18, 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• August 12, 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
• August 28, 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
• September 7, 1953 – Garfield Todd becomes Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
• September 12, 1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
• October 10, 1953 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
• October 12, 1953 – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York City

Who Were Born On 1953?

• February 20, 1953 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
• March 11, 1953 – Bernie LaBarge, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• April 6, 1953 – Patrick Doyle, Scottish actor and composer
• May 14, 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Red Rider)
• June 10, 1953 – Garry Hynes, Irish director and producer
• July 13, 1953 – Larry Gomes, Tobagan cricketer
• September 8, 1953 – Pascal Greggory, French actor
• September 9, 1953 – Manjula Vijayakumar, Indian actress (d. 2013)
• November 23, 1953 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• November 30, 1953 – Shuggie Otis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist