The temperature on June 3, 1953 was between 5.6 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
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