EXTRA: 24 EVENTS FROM THE YEAR 1953

US Number One Song during 11 weeks (August 2 – October 3 1953)

 

On on May 29th Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent
to the summit of Mount Everest.

Queen Elizabeth II crowned queen of England
on June 2nd in UK.

James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick
announce discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.

North Sea flood of 1953 kills  1835 people
in the southwestern Netherlands

in the night  January 31 - Februari 1

Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union,
dies at the age of 74 on March 5th. 

 Peter Pan is the 14th Disney animated fantasy film
and was originally released on February 5, 1953.

The first inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower 
as the 3th President of the United States on January 20.

The first workable all-transistor radio was demonstrated
in August 1953 at the Düsseldorf Radio Fair.

Destination Moon (French: Objectif Lune - Dutch: Raket naar de maan) is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from March to September 1950 before being published
in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. 

Casino Royale is the First novel by the British author Ian Fleming. It was published in 1953
and is the first James Bond book.

First ever television broadcast in Belgium by the NIR, directly from the flagey building - October 31.

Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine in the United States, with a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe as the centerfold, December 1953.

On March 26  Jonas Edward Salk, an American medical researcher and virologist, announces his polio vaccin.

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. The film was released on Sunday 26 July 1953, the day I was born.