The temperature on August 20, 1953 was between 13.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
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