Highlights of 1953
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- MAJOR EVENTS:
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- Nikita Khrushchev wins power struggle in Soviet Union after the death of
Josef Stalin
- Josef Broz Tito elected president of Yugoslavia
- Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed
- Korean armistice signed
- U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human
Services) created
- Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb
- BUSINESS & ECONOMY:
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- President Eisenhower ends all wage, salary and price controls
- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
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- U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager sets speed record in X-1 rocket
plane
- An expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary is the first to reach the summit of
Mount Everest
- James Watson and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA
- Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
- First clear evidence linking lung cancer to cigarette smoking
- SPORTS:
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- World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn, 4-2 (fifth
consecutive win)
- St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore to become the Orioles
- Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
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- Movies: Roman Holiday, From Here to Eternity, The
Robe (first major motion picture filmed in wide-screen CinemaScope)
- Songs: Doggie in the Window, I Believe, Stranger in
Paradise, I Love Paris
- TV Shows: Twenty Questions, Red Skelton Show, GE
Theatre, Make Room for Daddy
- Books: Casino Royale, Ian Fleming;
Battle Cry, Leon Uris
- EVERYDAY LIFE:
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- TV Guide debuts; on the cover of the first issue are Lucille
Ball and her newborn son, Desi Arnaz IV
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