The temperature on April 11, 1953 was between 0.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
Day of death May 18, 1953
The temperature on May 18, 1953 was between 7.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
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.
June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
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