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List of events
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 President
April–June
July–September
July 18 – Howard Hawks 's musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , starring 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 , on American sexual habits, is issued.
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 .[1]
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.[2]
October–December
Date unknown
Ongoing
Births
January 1
January 2 – Vincent Racaniello , American virologist, author, and academic
January 4 – James Warren , journalist and publisher
January 5 – Steve Archer , singer-songwriter and producer
January 8 – Bruce Sutter , baseball player
January 13 - Luann Ryon , archer[5]
January 15 – Kent Hovind , Christian fundamentalist evangelist and tax protester
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 3 – Ron Williamson , baseball player wrongly convicted of rape and murder (died 2004)[6]
February 7 – Dan Quisenberry , baseball player and poet (d. 1998)
February 11 – Jeb Bush , 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, second son of President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush ; younger brother of President George W. Bush
February 15 – John Goodsall , guitarist
March 1 – Luther Strange , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018
March 2 – Russ Feingold , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011
March 13 – Michael Curry , presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 2015
March 26 – Lincoln Chafee , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1999 to 2007
April 9 – Hal Ketchum , country singer-songwriter (died 2020)
April 16
April 20 – Carrie Mae Weems , photographer
April 26 – Linda Thompson , lawyer and conspiracy theorist (died 2009)
May 12 – Kevin Grevey , basketball player and sportscaster
May 26 – Kay Hagan , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 2009 to 2015
June 10 – John Edwards , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1999 to 2005
June 13 – Tim Allen , comedian, actor, voice-over artist and entertainer
June 18 – Bruce Seals , basketball player (died 2020)
July 15 – Alvin Neelley , murderer (died 2005)[7]
July 24 – Claire McCaskill , U.S. Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019
July 28 – Don Black , white supremacist
August 8 – Don Most , actor and director
August 19 – Mary Matalin , political consultant
September 24 – Peter Halley , painter and educator
October 25 – Ajamu Baraka , human rights activist and the Green Party 's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election
October 28 – Desmond Child , American songwriter and producer ***
November 14 – Phil Baron , voice actor, puppeteer and songwriter
November 15 – James Widdoes , actor, director and producer
November 18 - Kath Soucie , voice actor
November 25 – Katherine Zappone , human rights activist and independent politician in the Republic of Ireland
December 10 – Chris Bury , journalist and academic
December 13 – Larry Doby , 7-time all star black baseball player
December 27 – Sheila Dixon , Democrat mayor of Baltimore and criminal[8]
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 )
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 )
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
External links
1953 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories