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Events

January

• January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia
• January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).
• January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway
• January 24 – Mau Mau rebels in Kenya kill Ruck family – father, mother and a 6-year-old son
• January 28 - Derek Bentley is executed for murder in Wandsworth Prison
• January 31, February 1 - North Sea Flood of 1953 flood kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 134 on the Princess Victoria.

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February

• February 1 - Severe storms and spring tide flooding cause severe damage to the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands with severe flooding in Zeeland - North Sea Flood of 1953.
• February 5 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City).
• February 11 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
• February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
• February 18 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil opens.
• February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States
• February 28 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA.

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March-April

• March 1 - After an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body.
• March 1 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle
• March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies.
• March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• March 18 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
• March 25-26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya – Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 kikuyu
• March 26 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
• April 7 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
• April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced for seven years in prison for alleged organization of Mau Mau Rebellion
• April 25 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA.

Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171, 737-738.

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May

Mount Everest.

• May 2 - Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.
• May 2 - 38-year-old Stanley Matthews finally wins the FA Cup at his third attempt, in the famous 'Matthews Final'
• May 9 – France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with the king Norodom Sihanouk
• May 11 - The Waco Tornado: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas killing 114.
• May 18 - At Rogers Dry Lake, California Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
• May 25 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• May 29 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

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June-July

Queen Elizabeth II in her coronation robes

• June 2 - Coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
• June 8 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits in Flint, Michigan and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
• June 9 - CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKULTRA subproject.
• June 9 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• June 13 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
• June 17 - Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• June 18 - Egypt declares a republic
• June 19 - Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• June 30 - The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint (Michigan)
• July 10 – Soviet official paper Pravda announces that Lavrenti Beria has been deposed from his positions as a head of NKVD
• July 26 - Fidel Castro leads a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, sparking the Cuban Revolution.
• July 27 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.

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Lavrenty Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия) (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953), Soviet politician and police chief, is remembered chiefly as the executor of Joseph Stalins Great Purge of the 1930s, although in fact he presided only over the closing stages of the Purge. ... Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926), has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. ... Moncada barracks shortly after the attack The Moncada Barracks, near Santiago de Cuba, was the site of an attack by guerillas that sparked the Cuban Revolution. ... Czechoslovak poster saying: We greet the heroic Cuban people. 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August-October

• August 5 - Operation Big Switch, operation to repatriate prisoners of war after the Korean War
• August 7 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803.
• August 17 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, see October 5.
• August 19 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see: Operation Ajax).
• September 7 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
• September 26 - Rationing of sugar ends in the United Kingdom
• October - The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
• October 5 - First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (first planning session was held August 17)
• October 12 - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
• October 30 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

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Dr.Mohammed Mossadegh (Persian: محمد مصدق‎) (May 19, 1882 - March 4, 1967) was prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. ... Shah (in Persian: شاه), from the Old Persian word khshathra-pava king, popularly referred to as satrap by the Greeks, is the Persian term for a monarch and used by the former rulers of Persia as well as the rulers of the Persian Empire. ... His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980) holder of the deferential title Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), was the last reigning Shah of Iran to date, ruling from 1941 until 1979. ... Soldiers surround the Parliament building in Tehran on August 19, 1953. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв   listen?, April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume. ... A sugar is a carbohydrate which is sweet to taste. ... The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington Rand corporation in October, 1953. ... Look up RAM and random access memory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Different types of RAM. From top to bottom: DIP, SIPP, SIMM 30 pin, SIMM 72 pin, DIMM, DDR DIMM Random access memory (sometimes random-access memory), commonly known by its acronym RAM, is a type of computer storage... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a program of recovery for people with the disease of addiction aimed at helping addicts get clean, stay clean, and find a new way of life without the use of mind-altering or mood-altering substances. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War up until 1959. ... Order: 34th President Vice President: Richard Nixon Term of office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 Preceded by: Harry S. Truman Succeeded by: John F. Kennedy Date of birth: October 14, 1890 Place of birth: Denison, Texas Date of death: March 28, 1969 Place of death: Washington, D.C. First... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a popular movement. ...

November-December

• November 5 - David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister of Israel
• November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
• November 25 - England lose 6-3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home
• November 29 - French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu
• December 8 - US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City
• December 23 – Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrenti Beria has been executed
• December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River
• December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886—December 1, 1973; Hebrew: דוד בן גוריון) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, has an ornate terracotta facade typical of high Victorian architecture. ... For symbolic or mythic uses of the human skull, see Skull (symbolism) A Hippopotamuss skull A skull, or cranium, is a bony structure of vertebrates which serves as the general framework for a head. ... Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) was a fraud which was perpetrated, possibly by Charles Dawson and/or others, on paleontologists from November 1912 until its exposure in 1953. ... November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... England v Hungary (1953) refers to the first time the England football team were beaten at home by continental opposition1. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ) is a small town in northwestern Vietnam. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Order: 34th President Vice President: Richard Nixon Term of office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 Preceded by: Harry S. Truman Succeeded by: John F. Kennedy Date of birth: October 14, 1890 Place of birth: Denison, Texas Date of death: March 28, 1969 Place of death: Washington, D.C. First... Atoms for Peace was the title of a speech delivered by Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953. ... United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... Soviet redirects here. ... Lavrenty Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия) (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953), Soviet politician and police chief, is remembered chiefly as the executor of Joseph Stalins Great Purge of the 1930s, although in fact he presided only over the closing stages of the Purge. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... The Tangiwai disaster was the worst rail accident in New Zealand history. ... The Tangiwai disaster was the worst rail accident in New Zealand history. ... The Whangaehu River is a large river of the central North Island of New Zealand. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

Births

January-February

• January 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball relief pitcher
• January 10 - Pat Benatar, singer
• January 10 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer
• January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
• January 21 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur
• January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director
• January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
• February 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
• February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
• February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress
• February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor
• February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure
• February 11 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut
• February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic
• February 21 - William Petersen, actor
• February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, german artist
• February 25 - José María Aznar, Spanish politician

January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Howard Bruce Sutter (born January 8, 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was a dominant Major League Baseball relief pitcher and possibly the first pitcher to make effective use of the split-fingered fastball. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... A relief pitcher warms up in the bullpen as the game goes on A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness or fatigue. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Pat Benatar on the cover of her 1997 album Innamorata Pat Benatar (born January 10, 1953) is a popular American rock singer who had numerous hits during the 1980s such as Hit Me With Your Best Shot and Love is a Battlefield. She was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski in Brooklyn... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Bobby Rahal (born January 10, 1953 in Medina, Ohio) is an auto racing team owner and former driver. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Desi Arnaz, Jr. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Paul Allen Paul G. Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an entrepreneur who first established himself by co-founding Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is a noted film director. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Anders Fogh Rasmussen Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 26 January 1953) is the current Prime Minister of Denmark. ... This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1849 until present. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... P-Funk is an abbreviated, compound name for two bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Daniel Raymond Quisenberry (February 7, 1953 - September 30, 1998) was a Major League Baseball player, primarily as a star relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Philip Anglim (born February 11, 1953) is an American actor born in San Francisco, California, best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of The Elephant Man as well as that of Dane ONeill in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Alan Rubin was a trumpet player in the Blues Brothers band, aka Mr Fabulous. Has appeared on albums with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Duke Ellington, Billy Joel, BB King, and Yoko Ono. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... William Louis Petersen is an American actor born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Martin Kippenberger (*1953 in Dortmund, x1997), was an influential German artist whose penchant for mischievousness made him the focus of a generation of German enfants terrible including Markus and Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Gunter Förg. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... José María Aznar López (born February 25, 1953, in Madrid, Spain) was Prime Minister of the Spanish government from May 5, 1996 to April 17, 2004. ...

March-May

• March 1 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist
• March 6 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
• March 12 - Carl Hiaasen, author
• March 12 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor
• March 16 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
• March 16 - Richard Stallman, Free software proponent
• March 23 - Chaka Khan, singer
• March 26 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
• April 1 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director
• April 11 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
• April 11 - Andrew Wiles, mathematician
• April 16 - J. Neil Schulman, Science Fiction writer, Libertarian activist
• May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• May 15 - George Brett, Baseball Hall of Famer
• May 15 - Mike Oldfield, composer
• May 16 - Pierce Brosnan, actor (Remington Steele, James Bond)
• May 19 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
• May 24 - Alfred Molina, actor
• May 26 - Michael Portillo, politician
• May 29 - Danny Elfman, (composer)
• May 30 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor

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Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Isabelle Ann Huppert (born March 16, 1955) is a French actress. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Richard Matthew Stallman, a. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... Album cover of What Cha Gonna do for Me? Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is the stage name of the American singer Yvette Marie Stevens. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Elaine Lan Chao (Chinese: 趙小蘭, pinyin: Zhào Xiǎolán, Wade-Giles Chao Hsiao-lan; b. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... Barry Sonnenfeld (born April 1, 1953) worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Guy Verhofstadt Guy Verhofstadt  Pronunciation (born April 11, 1953) is the current Prime Minister of Belgium. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Belgium, known regionally as: Premier Ministre in French, Eerste Minister in Dutch, and Premierminister in German. ... Andrew John Wiles (born April 11, 1953) is a British mathematician living in the United States. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16, 1953 in Forest Hills, New York, USA) is an author, screenwriter, journalist and radio personality. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... // The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... This article deals with the baseball player George Howard Brett. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Mike Oldfield on the album cover of Amarok (1990) Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends rock or progressive rock, ethnic or world music, and classical music. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Anglo-Irish film actor and producer. ... Remington Steele was an American television series first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. ... James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... Victoria Wood (born May 19, 1953) is a British comedienne, actress, singer and writer. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... Alfred Molina (born May 24, 1953) is an English actor of Spanish-Italian parentage, born in London. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... Michael Portillo Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born May 26, 1953) is a journalist and was a British Conservative politician. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... Danny Elfman Daniel Robert Danny Elfman (born May 29, 1953, in Amarillo, Texas) is a pop musician, composer and writer of film soundtracks. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... Colm Meaney as Miles OBrien Colm Meaney (born May 30, 1953 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish-born actor, widely known for his role as Miles OBrien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ...

June-August

• June 6 - Robert Bruce Thompson, American author
• June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, singer
• June 13 - Tim Allen, actor
• June 21 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (twice), first female Muslim head of government
• July 14 - Bebe Buell, model, singer, Playmate of the Month for November, 1974
• July 15 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president of Haiti
• July 15 - Mila Pivnicki, First Lady of Canada
• July 29 - Geddy Lee, musician with Rush
• August 5 - Rick Mahler, Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
• August 11 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
• August 18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
• August 19 - Benoît Régent, French film actor (d. 1994)

June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... Bonnie Tyler Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on June 8, 1953 in Skewen, Neath) is a Welsh singer. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Tim Allen (born June 13, 1953) is an American comedian and actor. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (born June 21, 1953) became the first woman to lead a Muslim country in modern times when she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later by the President of... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... Bebe Buell hung around in celebrities most of her life. ... Playmates Brooke Berry, Shannon Stewart, Neferteri Shepherd, and Kristi Cline A Playmate is a female model featured in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month (or PMOM). ... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, from 1994 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2004. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Mila Mulroney (born July 15, 1953 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... Geddy Lee (30th Anniversary tour photo 2004) Gary Lee Weinrib OC (b. ... The starman logo of Rush first appeared on the back cover of 2112. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... Richard Keith Mahler (August 5, 1953 - March 2, 2005) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves (1979–1988, 1991), Cincinnati Reds (1989–1990) and Montreal Expos (1991). ... MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Terrence Gene Bollea, best known as Hulk Hogan and Hollywood Hogan (born August 11, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler and actor. ... ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Louie Gohmert (born August 18, 1953 in Tyler, Texas) is an American politician and current Republican U.S. Representative from Texas Congressional District 1. ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Benoît Régent (August 19, 1953 - October 21, 1994) was a French motion-picture actor. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

October-December

• October 2 - Brandon Wilson, author, explorer
• October 7 - Christopher Norris, actress
• October 9 - Tony Shalhoub, actor
• October 12 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
• October 12 - Les Dennis, comedian and television presenter
• October 16 - Terrence John Mason, American violinist
• October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
• October 27 - Robert Picardo, actor
• October 31 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
• October 31 - John M. Young,United Kingdom [British] Rehab Therapist
• November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
• November 18 - Alan Moore, comic book writer, writer, performer, magician
• November 19 - Robert Beltran, actor
• November 19 - Tom Villard, actor (d. 1994)
• November 28 - Ben Bolt, American guitarist
• November 29 - Alex Grey, artist
• December 6 - Gary Ward, baseball player
• December 8 - Kim Basinger, actress and Oscar winner
• December 13 - Bob Gainey, Hockey Hall of Famer
• December 20 - Kieran Maher, artist/physicist
• December 30 - Meredith Vierra, talk show host

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October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... Jeff Goldblum Jeffrey Lynn Jeff Goldblum was born October 22, 1952) in the Pittsburgh suburb of Whitaker, Pennsylvania. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... Robert Picardo as The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... Michael J. Anderson, born October 31, 1953 in Denver, Colorado, is an American actor best known for his role as the Man from another place in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. ... Dominique de Villepin Photo: David Mendiboure Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (born November 14, 1953, in Rabat, Morocco), simply known as Dominique de Villepin   listen?, is a French diplomat and politician. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... November 18 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Alan Moore Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England) is a British writer most famous for his work in comics. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Robert Beltran (born November 19, 1953) is best known for his role as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Tom Villard (b. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ben Bolt is an American classical guitar player and instructor. ... Guitarist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gary Lamell Ward (born December 6, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Minnesota Twins (1979-83), Texas Rangers (1984-86), New York Yankees (1987-89) and Detroit Tigers (1989-90). ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Kim Basinger Kim Basinger (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is a notable American film actress who entered the profession after great success as a model. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Michael Bob Gainey (Born December 13, 1953 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) is a current National Hockey League general manager and former ice hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens. ... The Hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; it is devoted to ice hockey rather than the field variety of the game. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ...

Deaths

• January 1 - Hank Williams, American musician
• January 28 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia
• March 2 - Jim Lightbody, American runner
• March 5 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer and producer
• March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
• March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1879)
• March 24 - Queen Mary the Dowager Queen Mother, queen of George V of the United Kingdom
• March 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
• May 29 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler
• July 26 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
• July 29 - Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer
• August 22 - Jim Tabor, baseball player
• September 2 - General Jonathan Wainwright, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
• September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
• October 3 - Arnold Bax, English composer
• October 8 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
• October 25 - Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
• October 27 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• November 8 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
• November 8 - John van Melle, South African author
• November 9 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
• November 21 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893)
• November 27 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
• November 29 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor
• November 30 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• December 18 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• December 27 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)

January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... Hank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Rt Hon James Scullin James Henry Scullin (September 18, 1876 - January 28, 1953), Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla, in western Victoria, the son of a railway worker of Irish descent. ... The current (25th) Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (sitting, fifth from left), with his Cabinet, 1999 The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... James Davies Jim Lightbody (March 15, 1882 – March 2, 1953) was an American middle distance runner, winner of six Olympic medals in the early 20th century. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897—March 5, 1953) was a Polish-American legendary Hollywood screenwriter. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: ) (April 271, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Joseph Stalin (December 21, 1879 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), a position which had later become that of party leader. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... March 24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. ... His Majesty King George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor, formerly Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... Thorpe participated in the 1912 Summer Olympics. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... Man Mountain Dean (né Frank Simmons Leavitt, June 30, 1891 - May 29, 1953) was a professional wrestler of the early twentieth century. ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... Nikolaos Plastiras (Greek: Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας) (November 4, 1883 - July 26, 1953) was a general of the Greek army. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who experimented with flying machines in the early 20th century. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... James Reubin Tabor (November 5, 1916 - August 22, 1953), also knicknamed Rawhide, was a Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Boston Red Sox (1938-44) and Philadelphia Phillies (1946-47). ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years). ... Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (August 23, 1883 – September 2, 1953), was a United States Army general and the commanding officer of Allied forces in The Philippines, at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. // Early Life and Training Wainwright was born at Fort... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). ... Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was a noted American astronomer, generally credited for discovering1the redshift of galaxies and the empirical Redshift Distance Law of galaxies, nowadays known as the Hubbles law, which , once the redshift is interpreted as a measure of recession speed... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... October 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (November 8, 1883 - October 3, 1953), composer, was born in Streatham, London, to prosperous upper-middle-class parents. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years). ... Kathleen Ferrier (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953), was a British contralto born in Preston, Lancashire, England. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... Holger Pedersen (April 7, 1867 - October 25, 1953) was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... Thomas Wass (Thomas George Wass or simply Tom Wass; born December 26, 1873, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England; died October 27, 1953, Sutton-in-Ashfield) was a Nottinghamshire bowler who is best remembered, along with Hallam, for astonishing triumphs that gave Nottinghamshire a brilliant County Championship win in 1907. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... The Russian writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (October 10, 1870 - November 8, 1953), born in Voronezh, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... John van Melle (February 11, 1887 - November 8, 1953) was a Dutch-born South African author. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (Swansea, October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953 in New York City) was a Welsh poet and writer. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Lawrence J. Larry Shields (September 13, 1893 - November 21, 1953) was an early jazz clarinetist. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Samuel Alfred De Grace (June 12, 1875 - November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Robert Millikan. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Julian Tuwim (September 13, 1894 – December 27, 1953) was a Polish poet of Jewish descent; born in the city of Łódź in Poland, educated in Łódź and Warsaw (studied Law and Philosophy at Warsaw University). ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Frits (Frederik) Zernike
• Chemistry - Hermann Staudinger
• Medicine - Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
• Literature - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
• Peace - George Catlett Marshall