March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death August 3, 1953
The temperature on August 3, 1953 was between 7.4 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
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 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
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