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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 3, 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• January 14, 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
• 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.
• May 16, 1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
• July 26, 1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
• 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 12, 1953 – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York City
• November 9, 1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.

Who Were Born On 1953?

• January 3, 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and author
• February 11, 1953 – Philip Anglim, American actor
• March 29, 1953 – Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician, 39th Mayor of Tallinn
• May 29, 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• May 31, 1953 – Linda Riordan, English politician
• July 11, 1953 – Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai businessman and politician, Thai Minister of Energy
• August 31, 1953 – Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentinian race car driver
• October 17, 1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader (Defunkt and Black Artists Group)
• October 26, 1953 – Joe Meriweather, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• December 14, 1953 – Mikael Odenberg, Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence