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Events from the year 1953 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Gordon Persons (Democratic )Governor of Arizona : John Howard Pyle (Republican )Governor of Arkansas : Sid McMath (Democratic ) (until January 13), Francis Cherry (Democratic ) (starting January 13)Governor of California : Earl Warren (Republican ) (until October 5), Goodwin Jess Knight (Republican ) (starting October 5)Governor of Colorado : Daniel I. J. Thornton (Republican )Governor of Connecticut : John Davis Lodge (Republican )Governor of Delaware : Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (until January 20), J. Caleb Boggs (Republican ) (starting January 20)Governor of Florida :
Governor of Georgia : Herman Talmadge (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : Leonard B. Jordan (Republican )Governor of Illinois : Adlai E. Stevenson II (Democratic ) (until January 12), William G. Stratton (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Indiana : Henry F. Schricker (Democratic ) (until January 12), George N. Craig (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Iowa : William S. Beardsley (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Edward F. Arn (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : Lawrence W. Wetherby (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana : Robert F. Kennon (Democratic )Governor of Maine :
Governor of Maryland : Theodore R. McKeldin (Republican )Governor of Massachusetts : Paul A. Dever (Democratic ) (until January 8), Christian A. Herter (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Michigan : G. Mennen Williams (Democratic )Governor of Minnesota : C. Elmer Anderson (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Hugh L. White (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Forrest Smith (Democratic ) (until January 12), Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic ) (starting January 12)Governor of Montana : John W. Bonner (Democratic ) (until January 5), J. Hugo Aronson (Republican ) (starting January 5)Governor of Nebraska : Val Peterson (Republican ) (until January 8), Robert B. Crosby (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Nevada : Charles H. Russell (Republican )Governor of New Hampshire : Sherman Adams (Republican ) (until January 1), Hugh Gregg (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of New Jersey : Alfred E. Driscoll (Republican )Governor of New Mexico : Edwin L. Mechem (Republican )Governor of New York : Thomas Dewey (Republican )Governor of North Carolina : W. Kerr Scott (Democratic ) (until January 8), William B. Umstead (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of North Dakota : Clarence Norman Brunsdale (Republican )Governor of Ohio : Frank J. Lausche (Democratic )Governor of Oklahoma : Johnston Murray (Democratic )Governor of Oregon : Paul L. Patterson (Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : John S. Fine (Republican )Governor of Rhode Island : Dennis J. Roberts (Democratic )Governor of South Carolina : James Francis Byrnes (Democratic )Governor of South Dakota : Sigurd Anderson (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Gordon Browning (Democratic ) (until January 15), Frank G. Clement (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Texas : Allan Shivers (Democratic )Governor of Utah : J. Bracken Lee (Republican )Governor of Vermont : Lee E. Emerson (Republican )Governor of Virginia : John S. Battle (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Arthur B. Langlie (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : Okey L. Patteson (Democratic ) (until January 19), William C. Marland (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Governor of Wisconsin : Walter J. Kohler, Jr. (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Frank A. Barrett (Republican ) (until January 3), Clifford Joy Rogers (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : James B. Allen (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Nathan Green Gordon (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of California : Goodwin Knight (Republican ) (until October 5), Harold J. Powers (Republican ) (starting October 5)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Gordon L. Allott (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Edward N. Allen (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Alexis I. du Pont Bayard (Democratic ) (until January 20), John W. Rollins (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Marvin Griffin (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Edson H. Deal (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Sherwood Dixon (Democratic ) (until January 12), John William Chapman (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : John A. Watkins (Democratic ) (until January 12), Harold W. Handley (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : William H. Nicholas (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Leo Elthon (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Fred Hall (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Emerson Beauchamp (political party unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : C. E. "Cap" Barham (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Charles F. Sullivan (Democratic ) (until January 8), Sumner G. Whittier (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : William C. Vandenberg (Republican ) (until January 1), Clarence A. Reid (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
until month and day unknown: vacant
month and day unknown: Ancher Nelsen (Republican )
starting month and day unknown: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Carroll Gartin (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : James T. Blair, Jr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Paul Cannon (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), George M. Gosman (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Charles J. Warner (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Clifford A. Jones (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Tibo J. Chavez (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Hoyt Patrick Taylor (Democratic ) (until January 8), Luther H. Hodges (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Ray Schnell (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Clarence P. Dahl (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : George D. Nye (Democratic ) (until January 12), John William Brown (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : James E. Berry (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Lloyd H. Wood (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : John S. McKiernan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : George Bell Timmerman, Jr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Rex A. Terry (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Walter M. Haynes (Democratic ) (until January 15), Jared Maddux (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Ben Ramsey (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Joseph B. Johnson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Allie Edward Stokes Stephens (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Victor A. Meyers (Democratic ) (until January 12), Emmett T. Anderson (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : George M. Smith (Republican )
Events January–March January 20: Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th U.S. President Richard Nixon becomes the 36th U.S. Vice PresidentJanuary 7 – President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb .[1]
January 14 – The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.
January 19 – 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy Lucille Ball give birth.
January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States , and Richard Nixon is sworn in as Vice President of the United States .
January 22 – The Crucible Arthur Miller written as an allegory of McCarthyism , opens on Broadway .
February 1 – WEEK-TV begins broadcasting in Peoria, Illinois .
February 5 – Walt Disney's 14th animated film, Peter Pan Chicago . It is Disney's final film to be distributed by RKO .
February 11 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg .
February 13 – Transsexual Christine Jorgensen returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark.
February 19 – Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the U.S.
March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot–Knothole is conducted in Nevada , with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 mi).
March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards ceremony, emceed by Conrad Nagel , is simultaneously held at RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood , Los Angeles (hosted by Bob Hope ) and at NBC International Theatre in New York (hosted by Fredric March ). It is the first ceremony to be televised. Cecil B. DeMille 's The Greatest Show on Earth Best Motion Picture , while Fred Zinnemann 's High Noon John Huston 's Moulin Rouge John Ford 's The Quiet Man Best Director win. Vincente Minnelli 's The Bad and the Beautiful
March 31 – Due to increasingly lower ridership, Staten Island Rapid Transit closes two of its three-passenger lines (South Beach & North Shore). April–June July–September July 18 – Howard Hawks 's musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell , is released by 20th Century Fox .
July 26 – The Short Creek raid is carried out on a polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona .
July 27 – The Korean War ends: The United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.
July 28 – Burger King opens its first restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida .
August 5 – Operation Big Switch : U.S. prisoners of war are repatriated after the Korean War .
August 17 – The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California . Its first meeting is held October 5.
August 18 – The second Kinsey Report , Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
August 19 – Cold War : 1953 Iranian coup d'état ("Operation Ajax") – The CIA helps to overthrow the democratic government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne.
August 20 – The U.S. returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II .
September 9 – The Supreme Court decision in Rumely v. United States affirms that indirect lobbying in the U.S. by distribution of books intended to influence opinion is a public good and not subject to regulation by Congress .[3]
September 12 – U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
September 28 – Six year old boy Bobby Greenlease is kidnapped in Kansas City, Missouri and murdered in Lenexa, Kansas , despite his father paying the largest ever ransom payment in American history at the time.[4] October–December October 5
October 10 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C.
October 12 – The play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Plymouth Theatre , New York.
October 15 – Tito Jackson , member of the Jacksons and brother of Michael Jackson
October 19 – Fahrenheit 451 , by Ray Bradbury, is published
October 30 – Cold War : U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document of the United States National Security Council NSC 162/2 , which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
December – Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy
December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra , conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica
December 8 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City.
December 18 – Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown are both executed in the Missouri gas chamber after pleading guilty to the Murder and kidnapping of six year old Bobby Greenlease ;[5]
December 25 – Amami Islands are returned to Japan after 8 years of United States Military occupation. Date unknown Ongoing Births January January 1
January 2 – Vincent Racaniello , virologist, author and academic
January 4 – James Warren , journalist and publisher
January 5 – Steve Archer , singer-songwriter and producer
January 6 – Danny Pearson , singer (died 2018 )
January 8 – Bruce Sutter , baseball pitcher (died 2022 )
January 11 – Jim Clendenen , winemaker (died 2021 )
January 13 – Luann Ryon , archer[8]
January 15
January 17 – Mark Littell , baseball player (died 2022 )[9]
January 19 – Desi Arnaz Jr. , actor and musician
January 20 – Jeffrey Epstein , financier and sex offender (died 2019 )
January 21
January 23 – Robin Zander , singer and guitarist (Cheap Trick )
January 24 – Tim Stoddard , baseball player and coach
January 29
February March April May May 12 – Kevin Grevey , basketball player and sportscaster
May 26
May 29
June June 10 – John Edwards , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1999 to 2005
June 11 – Barbara Minty , model
June 13 – Tim Allen , comedian, actor, voice-over artist and entertainer
June 18 – Bruce Seals , basketball player (died 2020) July August September October November November 14 – Phil Baron , voice actor, puppeteer and songwriter
November 15 – James Widdoes , actor, director and producer
November 18 - Kath Soucie , voice actress
November 25 – Katherine Zappone , human rights activist and independent politician in the Republic of Ireland December December 6
December 10 – Chris Bury , journalist and academic
December 22
December 27 – Sheila Dixon , Democrat mayor of Baltimore and criminal[20]
December 30
Deaths January 1 – Hank Williams , country singer-songwriter (born 1923 )
January 7 – Osa Johnson , adventurer and filmmaker, wife of Martin Johnson (born 1894 )
March 12 – James Hard , last verified living Union combat veteran of the American Civil War (born 1842 )
May 30 – Dooley Wilson , African American actor, singer and drummer (born 1886 )
June 3 – Florence Price , African American classical composer (born 1887 )
August 7 – Abner Powell , Major League Baseball player (born 1860 )
September 2 – Jonathan M. Wainwright , general (born 1883 )
September 5
September 8 – Fred M. Vinson , Chief Justice of the U.S. (born 1890 )
September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton , portrait painter (born 1868 )
September 28 – Edwin Hubble , astronomer (born 1889 )
October 3 – Florence R. Sabin , medical scientist (born 1871 )
October 11 – Pauline Robinson Bush , younger sister of US President George W. Bush (born 1949 )
November 18 – Ruth Crawford Seeger , modernist composer and folk music arranger (born 1901 )
November 21 – Larry Shields , dixieland jazz clarinetist (born 1893 )
November 27 – Eugene O'Neill , playwright (born 1888 )
December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , novelist (born 1896 )
December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan , physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868 )
December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck , geophysicist, oceanographer and surveyor (born 1882 ) See also References
^ "President Truman announces U.S. has developed hydrogen bomb" . HISTORY . Retrieved 2022-06-14 .^ "Workers assemble first Corvette in Flint, Michigan" . HISTORY . Retrieved 2022-06-14 .^ 345 U.S. 41 (1953).
^ "A Byte Out of History: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping" . Federal Bureau of Investigation .^ "Kidnap Killers Die Side by side Amid Swirling Clouds of Cyanide" . Jefferson City Post-Tribune . Jefferson City, Missouri. 1953-12-18. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.^ "About Us" . Denny's. Retrieved 2017-06-16 .^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2011-01-04. Retrieved 2022-07-15 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )^ "Luann Marie RYON - Olympic Archery | United States of America" . International Olympic Committee . 14 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019 .^ Former MLB pitcher Mark Littell dead at 69 ^ "Resurrection Band Website biographies" . Retrieved March 23, 2007 .^ "THE INNOCENT MAN -THE STORY OF RONALD WILLIAMSON" . June 6, 2015.^ 'Our city lost a true friend': Former Eagles running back Rev. Herbert Lusk dies at 69 ^ Dennis Franks, former Michigan, Lions center, dies at age 68 ^ Longtime WIP host Big Daddy Graham dies at 68 ^ Frasier, David K. (November 9, 1996). Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted Or Accused Killers ISBN 9780786401840 ^ Alex Williams (June 26, 2005), "The Boy King Has Left the Table" , The New York Times ^ Kilian, Jennifer M. "The Paintings of Karel du Jardin (1626–1678)" . John Benjamins Publishing Company. Retrieved 2 June 2021 . Publisher's website ^ The Encyclopedia of Country Music ISBN 978-0-19-992083-9 ^ Chase's Annual Events ISBN 978-0-8092-3732-6 ^ "Sheila Dixon -" .
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