January 1953
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The following events occurred in January 1953:
January 1, 1953 (Thursday)
- Died: Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)
January 2, 1953 (Friday)
January 3, 1953 (Saturday)
January 4, 1953 (Sunday)
- Died:
- Arthur Hoyt, American actor (b. 1874)
- Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Japanese prince (b. 1902)
January 5, 1953 (Monday)
- Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot had its first public stage première (in French as En attendant Godot) at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.
January 6, 1953 (Tuesday)
- The Asian Socialist Conference opened in Rangoon, Burma.
January 7, 1953 (Wednesday)
- U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
- Died: Osa Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1894)
January 8, 1953 (Thursday)
January 9, 1953 (Friday)
- Chang Cheong-ho, a South Korean passenger ship, capsized by strong wind near the Port of Busan, according to local coast guard officials. 229 persons were confirmed perished.
- Died: Marguerite Pitre (aka Madame le Corbeau), Canadian murderer (b. 1909)
January 10, 1953 (Saturday)
January 11, 1953 (Sunday)
January 12, 1953 (Monday)
- Estonian émigrés founded a government-in-exile in Oslo.
January 13, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Died: Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872)
January 14, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito was chosen to be President of Yugoslavia.
- The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first met to discuss the UFO phenomenon.
January 15, 1953 (Thursday)
- Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, was arrested for spying.
January 16, 1953 (Friday)
- Born: Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi and founder of the terrorist group The Order (d. 1984)
January 17, 1953 (Saturday)
January 18, 1953 (Sunday)
January 19, 1953 (Monday)
- 71.1% of all television sets in the United States were tuned to CBS to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky on I Love Lucy, a larger audience than watched Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day. This record has yet to be broken.
January 20, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as 34th President of the United States.
- Born: Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (d. 2019)
January 21, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Died: Mary Mannering, early 20th century English stage actress (b. 1876)
January 22, 1953 (Thursday)
- The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway.
January 23, 1953 (Friday)
January 24, 1953 (Saturday)
- Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya killed the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).
- Walter Ulbricht announced that agriculture would be collectivized in East Germany.
- Born: Moon Jae-in, 19th President of the Republic of Korea
January 25, 1953 (Sunday)
January 26, 1953 (Monday)
January 27, 1953 (Tuesday)
January 28, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Derek Bentley was executed for murder at Wandsworth Prison in London.
- Died: James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
January 29, 1953 (Thursday)
- Born: Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
January 30, 1953 (Friday)
- Died: Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867)
January 31, 1953 (Saturday)
- The North Sea flood of 1953 killed 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom[1][2] and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea. It will continue until February 1.
References
- Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
- Grieve, Hilda (1959). The great tide: The story of the 1953 flood disaster in Essex. Essex County Council.
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