April 1953
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The following events occurred in April 1953:
April 1, 1953 (Wednesday)
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April 2, 1953 (Thursday)
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April 3, 1953 (Friday)
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April 4, 1953 (Saturday)
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April 5, 1953 (Sunday)
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April 6, 1953 (Monday)
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April 7, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary-General.
April 8, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising.
April 9, 1953 (Thursday)
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April 10, 1953 (Friday)
- The Melbourne Knights is founded as Croatia SC in Melbourne.
April 11, 1953 (Saturday)
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April 12, 1953 (Sunday)
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April 13, 1953 (Monday)
- Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the United Kingdom.
- The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.
April 14, 1953 (Tuesday)
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April 15, 1953 (Wednesday)
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April 16, 1953 (Thursday)
- President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech to the National Association of Newspaper Editors[1]
- A four-story building in Chicago belonging to the Habar Corporation catches fire, killing 35 employees.
April 17, 1953 (Friday)
- Mickey Mantle hits a 565-foot (172 m) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.
April 18, 1953 (Saturday)
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April 19, 1953 (Sunday)
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April 20, 1953 (Monday)
- Frank Sinatra and the arranger Nelson Riddle began their first recording sessions together at Capitol Records, which would result in some of the defining recordings of Sinatra's career.
April 21, 1953 (Tuesday)
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April 22, 1953 (Wednesday)
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April 23, 1953 (Thursday)
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April 24, 1953 (Friday)
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April 25, 1953 (Saturday)
- Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA[2]
April 26, 1953 (Sunday)
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April 27, 1953 (Monday)
- Died:Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; former wife of John MacBride (b. 1866)
April 28, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Born:Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author (d. 2003)
April 29, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Died:Kiki de Montparnasse, French artists' model (b. 1901)
April 30, 1953 (Thursday)
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References
- ^ "Chance for Peace Speech". Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. April 16, 1953. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Watson, J. D.; Crick, F. H. C. (1953). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid". 171. Nature: 737–738. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
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