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The following events occurred inFebruary 1953:
February 1,1953 (Sunday)
[edit]- JOAK-TVbegan broadcasting from Tokyo, the first television station in Japan.[1]
- The surge of theNorth Sea floodcontinued from the previous day:
- The Groenendijk, a section of theSchielands Hoge Zeedijk(Schielands High Seadyke) in the Netherlands, began to collapse. The river shipde Twee Gebroeders,commanded by Captain Arie Evegroen, was successfully used to plug the hole in the dyke.[2]
- AnS-classsubmarine,HMSSirdar,was swamped by floods while indrydockatSheernessDockyard in the UK. It sank but was later raised and repaired.[3][4]
- Two British police officers, Inspector Charles Lewis and Constable Leonard Deptford of the Lincolnshire Constabulary, carried out heroic rescue operations when the sea wall was breached. Both would later receive theGeorge Medal.[5]
- The1953 NASCAR Grand National Seriesin the United States began with a race at Palm Beach Speedway, won byLee Petty.[6]
- Died:Archibald Nicoll,66, New Zealand artist[7]
February 2,1953 (Monday)
[edit]- ASkyways Limited Avro York,carrying 39 people fromLajes Fieldin theAzorestoGander,Newfoundland,disappeared over theNorth Atlantic Ocean.Its fate was never discovered.[8]
- Died:Alan Curtis,43, American actor, ofheart failure[9]
February 3,1953 (Tuesday)
[edit]- Batepá massacre:Hundreds ofSão Tomé's nativecreoles,known asforros,were killed by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners when a rebellion was anticipated.[10]
February 4,1953 (Wednesday)
[edit]February 5,1953 (Thursday)
[edit]- Walt Disney's feature filmPeter Panwas released in US cinemas, initially as adouble featurewith theTrue-Life Adventuresdocumentary short,Bear Country.[12]
- Sweet rationingended in the UK.[13]
- Died:Iuliu Maniu,Romanian politician (b. 1873)
February 6,1953 (Friday)
[edit]- English contraltoKathleen Ferrier,terminally ill with cancer, was taken from Covent Garden Opera House in London on a stretcher after forcing herself to complete the second night of her run in Gluck'sOrfeo ed Euridice.[14]
February 7,1953 (Saturday)
[edit]- ADouglas C-54A-5-DC Skymasteroperated byUnion Aéromaritime de Transportcrashed into trees on its approach toBordeaux–Mérignac AirportinBordeaux,France;nine of the 21 people on board were killed.[15]
- Born:Dan Quisenberry,American baseball pitcher, inSanta Monica, California(d. 1998)
February 8,1953 (Sunday)
[edit]- The1953 World Figure Skating Championshipsopened in Davos, Switzerland.
- Born:Mary Steenburgen,American actress, in Newport, Arkansas[16]
February 9,1953 (Monday)
[edit]- ACurtiss C-46D Commandoof theEgyptian Air Force,carrying 35 people, crashed in the desert east ofCairo,killing all but five of the occupants.[17]
- In Scotland, theFraserburghlife-boatJohn and Charles Kennedycapsizedwhile on its way to escort fishing vessels into harbour during a storm. Six crew members were killed.[18]
- Died:Cecil Hepworth,English director (b. 1874)
February 10,1953 (Tuesday)
[edit]- AFairchild C-119C-18-FA Flying Boxcarof theUnited States Air Forcecrashed on approach toBitburg Air Base,West Germany,during a snowstorm, killing all five occupants.[19]
February 11,1953 (Wednesday)
[edit]- US PresidentDwight D. Eisenhowerrefused a clemency appeal for spiesJulius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- TheSoviet Unionbroke diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the "Doctors' plot".
- Born:Jeb Bush,American politician,Governor of Floridaand2016 Republican presidential candidate,inMidland, Texas,toGeorge H. W. BushandBarbara Bush
February 12,1953 (Thursday)
[edit]- The1953 Torud earthquake,with an intensity of 6.6, killed at least 800 people in theGreat Salt Kavirarea ofTorud, Semnan,Iran.[20]
- TheNordic Councilwas inaugurated.[21]
- Died:Hal Colebatch,80, Australian politician, briefly Premier of Western Australia[22]
February 13,1953 (Friday)
[edit]- TheCentral Unitaria de Traballadores(CUT) was created, bringing together the majority of Chile's trade unions.[23]
- Christine Jorgensen,one of the first Americantranssexualsto undergo successfulsexual reassignment surgeryinDenmark,returned home to New York.[24]
February 14,1953 (Saturday)
[edit]- In Australia, two state elections took place, following recent boundary changes. InNew South Wales, the resultwas a landslide victory for the Labor Party, led byJoseph Cahill.Labor also won inWestern Australia,underAlbert Hawke.[25]
- Apartial solar eclipseoccurred.[26]
February 15,1953 (Sunday)
[edit]- Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster:36 people were killed and 65 injured when an overloaded railbus was derailed on a sharp bend at Punta Piedras, nearComodoro Rivadaviain thePatagonianprovince ofChubut,Argentina.[27]
- In theParaguayan general election,incumbent president candidateFederico Chávezwas re-elected unopposed, theColorado Partybeing the only party permitted by the country's laws.[28]
- In theLiechtenstein general election,theProgressive Citizens' Partywon eight of the 15 seats in theLandtagand remained in coalition with thePatriotic Union.[29]
- The devaluedSouth Korean Wonwas replaced by a new currency, theHwan.[30]
February 16,1953 (Monday)
[edit]- ThePakistan Academy of Scienceswas established in Lahore, during the fifth Pakistan Science Conference.[31]
February 17,1953 (Tuesday)
[edit]- Edward Short,MP, complained to the Secretary of State for War,James Hutchison,in the UK Parliament about the failure to provide individual headstones forChelsea PensionersinBrookwood Cemetery,saying, "Is it not a shocking disgrace that these fine old Pensioners should have their graves marked only by a peg in the ground with a number attached to it?" Following a campaign, the graves were placed in the care of theCommonwealth War Graves Commission.[32]
February 18,1953 (Wednesday)
[edit]- TheKOLN(Channel 10) TV station began broadcasting on Channel 12 inLincoln, Nebraska,United States.[33]
February 19,1953 (Thursday)
[edit]- TheUS state of Georgiaintroduced abook censorship board.[34]
- Born:
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,Argentine politician,President of Argentina2007–2015, in Tolosa,La Plata[35]
- Conrad Murray,American physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death ofMichael Jackson,inSaint Andrew Parish,BritishGrenada
- Died:Nobutake Kondō,Japanese admiral (b. 1886)
February 20,1953 (Friday)
[edit]- Born:Riccardo Chailly,Italian orchestral conductor, in Milan[36]
February 21,1953 (Saturday)
[edit]- An explosion destroyed the Nitroform Products Company plant inNewark, New Jersey,United States.[37]
- Died:Ilio Colli,Italian Olympic downhill skier, training crash (b. 1931)[38]
February 22,1953 (Sunday)
[edit]- TheSouth American Championshipfootball tournament began, hosted byPeruafter Paraguay dropped out because of the lack of a suitable stadium.[39]
- Born:Geoffrey Perkins,British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)
February 23,1953 (Monday)
[edit]- Following elections in the Australian state ofNew South Wales,thenew ministry,led byJoe Cahillof theLabor Party,took power.[40][41]
- Died:SirCecil Hunter-Rodwell,British colonial administrator (b. 1874)
February 24,1953 (Tuesday)
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February 25,1953 (Wednesday)
[edit]- Jacques Tati's filmLes Vacances de M. Hulot,introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot, was released in France.
- Born:Martin Kippenberger,German artist, in Dortmund (d. 1997)[42]
- Died:Sergei Winogradsky,Russian scientist (b. 1856)
February 26,1953 (Thursday)
[edit]- A week beforeJoseph Stalin's unexpected death, US bishopFulton J. Sheen,at the end of his weekly TV show,Life Is Worth Living,read the assassination scene from Shakespeare'sJulius Caesar,with the names of high-rankingSovietofficials replacing the main characters, concluding that "Stalin must one day meet his judgment".[43]
- A British cargo ship ran aground atHuglen,Norway.[44]
- Born:Michael Bolton,American singer and songwriter, as Michael Bolotin, inNew Haven, Connecticut[45]
February 27,1953 (Friday)
[edit]- TheLondon Agreement on German External Debtswas concluded by the major parties, writing off 50% of repayable war debt owed by theFederal Republic of Germanyto its creditors.[46]
- Born:Oleg Moliboga,Ukrainian/Soviet volleyball player and coach, inDnipro,Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (d. 2022)[47]
February 28,1953 (Saturday)
[edit]- Greece,Turkey,andYugoslaviasigned theBalkan Pact(Agreement of Friendship and Cooperation) in Ankara.[48]
- James WatsonandFrancis Crickof theUniversity of Cambridgepublicly claimed to have discovered thestructure of the DNA molecule.[49]
- Joseph Stalinheld a party at his Volynskoe dacha. The party broke up at 4 AM the following day, March 1, 1953.
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