WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1953
Find out what all happened April to December 1953

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. (8. April 1953)

British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. (15. 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)

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. (13. April 1953)

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

Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. (18. May 1953)

Fighting in the Korean War ends when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. (27. July 1953)

Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (24. April 1953)

Cold War: U.S. 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. (30. October 1953)

Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. (4. May 1953)

Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (13. September 1953)

Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C. (10. October 1953)

Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94. (9. June 1953)

U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. (12. September 1953)

Cambodia gains independence from France. (9. November 1953)

Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital. (1. November 1953)

The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114. (11. May 1953)

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

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

Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. (10. April 1953)