The temperature on October 18, 1953 was between 3.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
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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