February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of death December 31, 1953
The temperature on December 31, 1953 was between -3.8 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
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