January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
Day of marriage September 15, 1953
The temperature on September 15, 1953 was between 9.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
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 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
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