WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1953
Find out what all happened January to October 1953

Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid. (26. July 1953)

Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia. (14. January 1953)

Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (7. September 1953)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. (11. February 1953)

71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. (19. January 1953)

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. (1. March 1953)

British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia. (27. October 1953)

James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). (28. February 1953)

A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. (3. March 1953)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. (19. June 1953)

East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. (17. June 1953)

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129. (18. June 1953)

Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. (19. February 1953)

The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel. (11. February 1953)

LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah. (21. September 1953)

Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. (26. June 1953)

The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. (25. May 1953)

The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44. (17. July 1953)

The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. (5. October 1953)

Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. (16. April 1953)