The temperature on August 19, 1953 was between 8.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
Day of death October 11, 1953
The temperature on October 11, 1953 was between 2.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
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.
August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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