Notable Historical Events - 1953
1953 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres |
Jan 1 |
WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jan 1 |
The Bantu Education Act (later renamed the Black Education Act) commenced, providing the legal underpinning of several aspects of the apartheid system, most importantly in education. |
Jan 2 |
NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak |
Jan 3 |
Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. |
Jan 4 |
KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 5 |
-6] Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea |
Jan 5 |
Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris |
Jan 6 |
WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 7 |
US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb |
Jan 8 |
Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) |
Jan 8 |
René Mayer forms French government |
Jan 9 |
Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game |
Jan 9 |
Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 |
Jan 10 |
"My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs |
Jan 10 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish |
Jan 10 |
NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 |
Jan 11 |
J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
Jan 12 |
9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow |
Jan 13 |
Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 |
Jan 13 |
KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 13 |
Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
Jan 14 |
Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester |
Jan 14 |
WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 14 |
Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito) |
Jan 15 |
16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station |
Jan 15 |
GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" |
Jan 16 |
27th Australian Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (6-3 6-2) |
Jan 16 |
41st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (6-0 6-3 6-4) |
Jan 16 |
Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties |
Jan 16 |
KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 18 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 19 |
Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary |
Jan 20 |
1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY |
Jan 20 |
1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) |
Jan 21 |
John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State |
Jan 22 |
Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC |
Jan 23 |
Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 yrs 357 days |
Jan 23 |
NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) |
Jan 23 |
NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf |
Jan 25 |
WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 25 |
Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec |
Jan 27 |
Netherlands end Marshall aid |
Jan 28 |
J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show" |
Jan 28 |
WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 29 |
1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres |
Jan 31 |
"Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die |
Jan 31 |
Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835 |
Jan 31 |
NY, Cleveland, & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues |
Feb 1 |
"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Ronald Reagan later hosts |
Feb 1 |
"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television |
Feb 1 |
Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state |
Feb 1 |
Flooding in Netherlands kills 1,835 |
Feb 1 |
WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 3 |
J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show |
Feb 5 |
"Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC |
Feb 5 |
5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes win |
Feb 5 |
Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain |
Feb 6 |
Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie |
Feb 6 |
US controls on wages & some consumer goods lifted |
Feb 8 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
Feb 8 |
WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins |
Feb 9 |
"Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication |
Feb 9 |
WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Feb 9 |
General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA |
Feb 10 |
Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB |
Feb 10 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB |
Feb 10 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA |
Feb 10 |
Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA |
Feb 11 |
"Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances |
Feb 11 |
J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in NYC |
Feb 11 |
Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple |
Feb 11 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
Feb 12 |
USSR breaks relations with Israel |
Feb 13 |
A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium |
Feb 16 |
Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet, later awarded the Air medal |
Feb 17 |
DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven |
Feb 18 |
"Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York |
Feb 18 |
"Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Feb 18 |
KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 18 |
Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC) |
Feb 19 |
Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board |
Feb 19 |
William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC |
Feb 20 |
August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million |
Feb 20 |
US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling |
Feb 21 |
"Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Feb 21 |
F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule |
Feb 21 |
Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81 |
Feb 25 |
"Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs |
Feb 26 |
Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA |
Feb 28 |
Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov |
Mar 1 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
Mar 1 |
KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 1 |
KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins |
Mar 1 |
WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission |
Mar 1 |
WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 1 |
Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later. |
Mar 2 |
The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC. |
Mar 3 |
Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed |
Mar 3 |
Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee |
Mar 6 |
Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR |
Mar 7 |
Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington |
Mar 8 |
"Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances |
Mar 8 |
Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years |
Mar 8 |
KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 8 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
Mar 8 |
WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 9 |
Josef Stalin buried in Moscow |
Mar 11 |
1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) |
Mar 11 |
American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet acrosss, but the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches |
Mar 14 |
KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 15 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 15 |
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 |
Mar 16 |
AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore |
Mar 17 |
Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M |
Mar 17 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 17 |
WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 17 |
WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 18 |
15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68 |
Mar 18 |
Boston Braves move to Milwaukee |
Mar 18 |
Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die |
Mar 18 |
KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 18 |
NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) |
Mar 19 |
Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real" premieres in NYC |
Mar 19 |
25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st time televised) |
Mar 20 |
Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole |
Mar 21 |
NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) |
Mar 22 |
AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia |
Mar 22 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
Mar 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 26 |
Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio |
Mar 27 |
21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio |
Mar 28 |
"New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 perfs |
Mar 28 |
"Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises 5,200,000 guilders |
Mar 28 |
7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win |
Mar 28 |
KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 28 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
Mar 28 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
Mar 29 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open |
Mar 30 |
Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory |
Mar 31 |
US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established |
Mar 31 |
UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjoeld secretary-general |
Apr 1 |
J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea |
Apr 1 |
KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 1 |
Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India |
Apr 2 |
Raab forms his 1st government in Austria |
Apr 4 |
KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 5 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 5 |
WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 7 |
1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight |
Apr 7 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary |
Apr 8 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN |
Apr 8 |
Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with Mau Mau and sentenced to 7 years in Kenya |
Apr 9 |
"TV Guide" publishes 1st issue |
Apr 9 |
Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax. |
Apr 10 |
"House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC) |
Apr 10 |
7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 11 |
Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare |
Apr 12 |
17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274 |
Apr 12 |
KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 12 |
Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston |
Apr 13 |
1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0 |
Apr 14 |
Viet-Minh offensive in Laos |
Apr 14 |
WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins |
Apr 15 |
Malans National Party wins South African elections |
Apr 15 |
WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 16 |
British royal yacht Britannia launched by Queen Elizabeth II |
Apr 16 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open |
Apr 16 |
Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game |
Apr 16 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 16 |
WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 17 |
Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Wash DC's Griffith Stadium |
Apr 18 |
"Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances |
Apr 19 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open |
Apr 19 |
WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 20 |
57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51 |
Apr 23 |
General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Apr 23 |
KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 23 |
WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 24 |
Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
Apr 25 |
Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine |
Apr 27 |
1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP |
Apr 27 |
Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek" |
Apr 29 |
Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers |
Apr 29 |
The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. |
Apr 30 |
Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League |
May 2 |
79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02 |
May 2 |
Feisal II installed as king of Iraq |
May 2 |
Hussein I installed as king of Jordan |
May 3 |
WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 3 |
Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read" |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man & The Sea |
May 6 |
Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0 |
May 7 |
"Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances |
May 7 |
Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile |
May 8 |
WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 10 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
May 10 |
KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
May 11 |
Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage) |
May 11 |
Winston Churchill criticizes US Sec of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory |
May 12 |
KUHT TV channel 8 (PBS) in Houston, TX, begins broadcasting |
May 13 |
NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple |
May 15 |
Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago |
May 15 |
Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam |
May 16 |
Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row |
May 17 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open |
May 17 |
Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game |
May 18 |
1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA) |
May 19 |
Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah) |
May 21 |
French government of Mayer resigns |
May 22 |
US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill |
May 22 |
Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4 |
May 23 |
79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 |
May 23 |
WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 24 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus |
May 25 |
1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
May 25 |
1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas |
May 25 |
Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row |
May 26 |
Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die |
May 27 |
Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections |
May 28 |
Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" |
May 29 |
Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition |
May 30 |
1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 |
May 30 |
23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2) |
May 30 |
23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4) |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Bill Vukovich wins in 3:53:01.668 (207.187 km/h) |
May 31 |
Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government |
May 31 |
WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast |
Jun 1 |
KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 1 |
WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 2 |
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London |
Jun 3 |
Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
Jun 3 |
KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins |
Jun 3 |
Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball |
Jun 4 |
Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola to Chic |
Jun 5 |
Denmark adopts a new constitution |
Jun 5 |
US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN |
Jun 7 |
1st color network telecast in compatible color (Boston Mass) |
Jun 7 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
Jun 7 |
Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants |
Jun 7 |
WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins |
Jun 8 |
Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint Michigan killing 113 |
Jun 8 |
Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court |
Jun 9 |
"Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 9 |
South African premier Malan visits Netherlands |
Jun 9 |
Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless) |
Jun 11 |
"Amos 'n Andy" TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS |
Jun 11 |
Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge |
Jun 13 |
53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA |
Jun 13 |
85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 13 |
Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia |
Jun 13 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2) |
Jun 13 |
KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jun 14 |
Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal |
Jun 14 |
Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn |
Jun 14 |
Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia |
Jun 14 |
Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight |
Jun 15 |
Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak |
Jun 15 |
Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits |
Jun 15 |
NYC Transit Authority forms |
Jun 15 |
WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 16 |
Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak |
Jun 17 |
Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox) |
Jun 17 |
Riots in East Germany for reunification |
Jun 17 |
Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary |
Jun 18 |
Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president |
Jun 18 |
USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen |
Jun 18 |
Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3 |
Jun 19 |
Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council |
Jun 19 |
WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 19 |
WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Jun 20 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 23 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament |
Jun 24 |
KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 25 |
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours |
Jun 25 |
86°F in Anchorage Alaska |
Jun 26 |
KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Jun 26 |
Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested |
Jun 27 |
Joseph Laniel appointed French premier |
Jun 28 |
8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
Jun 29 |
XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jun 30 |
1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured |
Jul 1 |
KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 1 |
KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins |
Jul 3 |
67th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (9-7 6-3 6-4) |
Jul 4 |
60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (8-6 7-5) |
Jul 4 |
Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary |
Jul 5 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jul 5 |
WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 7 |
35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich |
Jul 7 |
Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
Jul 8 |
US stops aid to Persia |
Jul 9 |
1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) |
Jul 9 |
Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games |
Jul 10 |
82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees |
Jul 10 |
Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist] |
Jul 12 |
KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 14 |
1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver |
Jul 14 |
20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
Jul 14 |
Communist offensive in Korea |
Jul 15 |
ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names |
Jul 16 |
KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jul 19 |
KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 19 |
WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 20 |
USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations |
Jul 20 |
The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. |
Jul 24 |
KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 25 |
NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens |
Jul 26 |
Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba |
Jul 26 |
Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime |
Jul 26 |
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. |
Jul 27 |
North Korea & UN sign armistice |
Jul 27 |
Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory |
Jul 27 |
Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem & Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame |
Jul 29 |
US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
Jul 30 |
Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. |
Jul 31 |
Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created |
Aug 1 |
California introduces sales tax (for education) |
Aug 1 |
Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
Aug 1 |
KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 1 |
KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 1 |
Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland |
Aug 1 |
Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief |
Aug 2 |
Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash |
Aug 2 |
KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Aug 3 |
Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Aug 4 |
Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago |
Aug 4 |
Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0 |
Aug 5 |
Operation "Big Switch"; Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom |
Aug 6 |
Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military |
Aug 7 |
Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet |
Aug 8 |
Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
Aug 8 |
US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
Aug 9 |
Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir fired |
Aug 12 |
Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic |
Aug 12 |
Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed |
Aug 12 |
Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb |
Aug 13 |
4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
Aug 13 |
US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
Aug 13 |
US General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of staff |
Aug 14 |
20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818) |
Aug 14 |
KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 16 |
KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
Aug 16 |
Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome |
Aug 17 |
Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. |
Aug 19 |
England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 |
Aug 19 |
The democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project) |
Aug 20 |
General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia |
Aug 20 |
Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation |
Aug 21 |
Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation |
Aug 21 |
Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m |
Aug 21 |
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed |
Aug 22 |
John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union |
Aug 22 |
Shah of Iran returns to Teheran |
Aug 23 |
Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan |
Aug 23 |
Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter |
Aug 23 |
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die |
Aug 23 |
KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 23 |
Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3") |
Aug 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Aug 27 |
"Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released |
Aug 28 |
"Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances |
Aug 29 |
KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 29 |
USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb |
Aug 31 |
KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 31 |
WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins |
Sep 1 |
101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
Sep 1 |
Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship |
Sep 1 |
WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Sep 1 |
WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins |
Sep 3 |
European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect |
Sep 3 |
French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy |
Sep 4 |
WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins |
Sep 4 |
WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 4 |
Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship |
Sep 5 |
1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC |
Sep 5 |
US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid |
Sep 6 |
Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic |
Sep 6 |
Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38 |
Sep 7 |
67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4) |
Sep 7 |
73rd US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (6-3 6-2 6-3) |
Sep 7 |
Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs |
Sep 8 |
"Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 performances |
Sep 8 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona |
Sep 9 |
KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 9 |
WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 10 |
Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" |
Sep 11 |
KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 12 |
"Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 perfs |
Sep 12 |
Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team |
Sep 13 |
Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's |
Sep 14 |
Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov |
Sep 14 |
Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians |
Sep 15 |
Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) |
Sep 15 |
KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 15 |
WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles |
Sep 17 |
1st successful separation of Siamese (conjoined) twins |
Sep 17 |
Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player |
Sep 19 |
"Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs |
Sep 20 |
Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR |
Sep 21 |
Allied forces form West Germany |
Sep 21 |
KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Sep 22 |
Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia |
Sep 23 |
KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 24 |
"Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway |
Sep 24 |
Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 26 |
Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game |
Sep 26 |
KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 26 |
Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski |
Sep 26 |
US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain) |
Sep 27 |
Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal |
Sep 27 |
KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins |
Sep 27 |
KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 27 |
KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 27 |
KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 27 |
St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game |
Sep 27 |
Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan |
Sep 27 |
WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 27 |
WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 27 |
WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 28 |
"Bob & Ray Show" TV Variety last air on NBC |
Sep 28 |
"Juvenile Jury" TV Children's last airs on NBC, moved to CBS |
Sep 28 |
"Racket Squad" TV Crime Drama last airs on CBS |
Sep 28 |
Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 |
Sep 28 |
KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 29 |
"Buick-Berle Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois |
Sep 29 |
Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000 |
Sep 29 |
Milton Berle Show premieres |
Sep 29 |
US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China |
Sep 30 |
Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record) |
Sep 30 |
Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court |
Sep 30 |
Robert Anderson's "Tea & Sympathy" premieres in NYC |
Sep 30 |
WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 30 |
WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins |
Oct 1 |
Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras |
Oct 1 |
KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, TN (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 perf |
Oct 2 |
Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series |
Oct 3 |
10th Ryder Cup: US wins 6½-5½ at Wentworth, England |
Oct 3 |
7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal |
Oct 3 |
KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) |
Oct 4 |
Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series |
Oct 5 |
Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US |
Oct 5 |
50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS |
Oct 5 |
The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. |
Oct 6 |
WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 7 |
Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply |
Oct 8 |
Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group |
Oct 8 |
WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins |
Oct 9 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution |
Oct 9 |
Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
Oct 12 |
US & Greece signs peace treaty (US bases) |
Oct 13 |
Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno |
Oct 14 |
1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
Oct 14 |
Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die |
Oct 14 |
Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr |
Oct 14 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia |
Oct 14 |
Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment |
Oct 14 |
WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 15 |
John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon" premieres in NYC |
Oct 15 |
KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 15 |
WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins |
Oct 16 |
Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana) |
Oct 18 |
WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 18 |
WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 18 |
Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times |
Oct 19 |
1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service |
Oct 19 |
Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey |
Oct 20 |
WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 22 |
Laos gains full independence from France |
Oct 23 |
France grants Laos' sovereignty |
Oct 23 |
German FR applies to NATO |
Oct 23 |
WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Oct 24 |
KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 25 |
Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles |
Oct 25 |
Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die |
Oct 25 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony |
Oct 25 |
KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 26 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
Oct 28 |
Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) |
Oct 28 |
Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees |
Oct 29 |
A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns |
Oct 30 |
Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 31 |
TV broadcasting begins in Belgium |
Nov 1 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4) |
Nov 1 |
KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 1 |
KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 1 |
WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 2 |
Pakistan becomes islamic republic |
Nov 3 |
1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly |
Nov 3 |
First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC) |
Nov 4 |
Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's |
Nov 4 |
New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk |
Nov 5 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke |
Nov 5 |
Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds |
Nov 5 |
Terence Rattigan's "Sleeping Prince" premieres in London |
Nov 6 |
French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
Nov 6 |
Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles |
Nov 6 |
Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb" premieres |
Nov 7 |
WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 8 |
Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal |
Nov 9 |
Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union |
Nov 9 |
KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 9 |
Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws |
Nov 10 |
Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised) |
Nov 11 |
Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager |
Nov 12 |
David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
Nov 12 |
US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games |
Nov 13 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 4th String Quartet premieres |
Nov 14 |
WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 15 |
WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 15 |
WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 17 |
St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc |
Nov 17 |
The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland. |
Nov 17 |
The United States join the UN in condemning Israel's raid on Jordon on October 4, 1953 |
Nov 18 |
Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage |
Nov 19 |
US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business |
Nov 19 |
US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi |
Nov 20 |
Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH) |
Nov 21 |
WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 21 |
Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax. |
Nov 23 |
KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Nov 23 |
WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 24 |
Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954 |
Nov 25 |
"Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,200 performances |
Nov 25 |
Earthquake and tsnunami strike Honshu, Japan |
Nov 25 |
Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3 |
Nov 26 |
KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 26 |
WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 26 |
Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening |
Nov 27 |
Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP |
Nov 28 |
"Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 perfs |
Nov 28 |
41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6 |
Nov 29 |
American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service |
Nov 29 |
WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 30 |
French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
Nov 30 |
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. |
Dec 1 |
Red Sox trade M McDermott & Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen |
Dec 1 |
WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast |
Dec 1 |
WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 1 |
Walter Alston named Dodger manager |
Dec 3 |
"Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances |
Dec 3 |
Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party |
Dec 3 |
Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet |
Dec 6 |
Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14 |
Dec 7 |
Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires |
Dec 7 |
WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 8 |
19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB) |
Dec 8 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in New York. |
Dec 9 |
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
Dec 9 |
Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins |
Dec 10 |
"John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs |
Dec 10 |
KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 10 |
WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins |
Dec 11 |
KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
Dec 12 |
Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane |
Dec 13 |
KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 14 |
Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax |
Dec 15 |
WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 16 |
1st White House Press Conference (Pres Eisenhower & 161 reporters) |
Dec 16 |
Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A |
Dec 17 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad |
Dec 17 |
FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications |
Dec 18 |
KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 18 |
KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 19 |
KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 20 |
KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting |
Dec 20 |
KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 21 |
KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 22 |
Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns |
Dec 23 |
Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year |
Dec 24 |
2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia) |
Dec 24 |
KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 24 |
KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 24 |
René Coty elected president of France |
Dec 24 |
Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166 |
Dec 25 |
Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand) |
Dec 27 |
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game |
Dec 28 |
WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 30 |
The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA. |
Dec 31 |
Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president |
Dec 31 |
WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins |
Dec 31 |
Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year |
Dec 31 |
42nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2) |
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