The temperature on January 25, 1953 was between 0.1 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
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 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 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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