The temperature on August 9, 1953 was between 9.5 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
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.
August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
Day of death August 19, 1953
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
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
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.
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.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
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