The temperature on January 22, 1953 was between 3.7 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
April 27 » 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.
June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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