January 1953

The following events occurred in January 1953:

January 1, 1953 (Thursday)

• Died:Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)

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 has 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 opens in Rangoon, Burma.

January 7, 1953 (Wednesday)

• United States President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• Died:Osa Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1894)

January 9, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:Marguerite Pitre (aka Madame le Corbeau), Canadian murderer (b. 1909)

January 12, 1953 (Monday)

• Estonian émigrés found 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 is chosen to be President of Yugoslavia.
• The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.

January 15, 1953 (Thursday)

• Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is 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 19, 1953 (Monday)

• 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tuned into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken.

January 20, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeds Harry S. Truman as the 34th President of the United States.

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, opens on Broadway.

January 24, 1953 (Saturday)

• Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).
• Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.

January 28, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Derek Bentley is 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 kills 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.

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