January 1953

January 1, 1953 (Thursday)

January 2, 1953 (Friday)

January 3, 1953 (Saturday)

January 4, 1953 (Sunday)

January 5, 1953 (Monday)

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)

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)

January 21, 1953 (Wednesday)
  • Died: Mary Mannering, early 20th century English stage actress (b. 1876)

January 22, 1953 (Thursday)

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)

January 30, 1953 (Friday)

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.
gollark: I see.
gollark: What's a `Rantaimu`? `ijo`?
gollark: Why the weird struct/variable names?
gollark: The bots which do code guessing, yes.
gollark: Maybe next round I should just put all the fingerprints in so the code guessing bots misidentify it.

References
  1. Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
  2. Grieve, Hilda (1959). The great tide: The story of the 1953 flood disaster in Essex. Essex County Council.
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