March 15, 1953 — The first World Contact Day is held
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as...
April 30, 2018
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April 13, 1953 — The CIA launches the MK-ULTRA project
CIA director Allen Dulles ordered the creation of the MKUltra project intending it to create techniques to fight what was...
April 28, 2018
June 2, 1953 — Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Technically, Elizabeth Windsor became the Queen of England as soon as her father, King George VI died on February 2...
April 24, 2018
June 17, 1953 — The East German Uprising peaks
Beginning as a strike by 300 construction workers in East Berlin on June 16, 1953, what would become known as...
April 14, 2018
June 19, 1953 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed
Julius and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were a married couple from New York City. Of Jewish-American origin, the two had met...
April 9, 2018
August 11, 1953 — Hulk Hogan born
Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, Georgia, and from the age of about 16, he doesn’t seem to have ever...
April 7, 2018
September 1, 1953 — The Doomsday Clock is set at two minutes to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications in the world. Its first...
April 4, 2018
December 6, 1953 — Nabokov finishes writing “Lolita”
Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century. Its subject matter – a...
April 1, 2018
January 20, 1954 — William Burroughs writes his first letter home from Tangier
Burroughs was inspired by the works of Paul Bowles to visit Tangier, and found it much to his liking. He...
March 29, 2018
May 7, 1954 — Dien Bien Phu falls
The fall of Dien Bien Phu marked the unofficial end of French Indo-China. The French Far East Expeditionary Corps was...
March 24, 2018
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