The temperature on August 4, 1953 was between 6.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
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