February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death May 10, 1953
The temperature on May 10, 1953 was between 1.1 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
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