January 7 – President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz, Jr. in real life).
January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeds Harry S. Truman as President of the United States.
February 5 – Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres at selected theaters.
February 28 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
March 5-- Joseph Stalin dies.
March 25 – 26 – Mau Mau Uprising: Mau Mau Terrorists kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives at the Lari Massacre in Kenya.
March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
March 30 – higgmeister born at Baptist Hospital, Gadsden AL
April 13 – Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
June 2 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
July 9 – The IRS is formed.
July 27 – The Korean War ends: United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement.
August 8 – Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
August 13 – 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest austerity measures.
August 18 – Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published.
September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
September 26 – Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.
October – The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
November 21 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 29 – French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.
December – Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy Magazine; it sells 54,175 copies at $.50 each.
December 30 – The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).
Who makes up this silly stuff?
There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.
Who makes up this silly stuff?
There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.
um 1953 was more than 53 years ago chief.
This sounded wrong to me and I found this from a tax document from Washington State.
1955 - Additional tax of 0.5 cents per 10 cents of selling price (then roughly equivalent to 1 cent per pack).That makes it 20 cents a pack in 1955 in the state that arguably had the highest tobacco prices at the time. In the Southern States the price was probably 10 cents a pack and in South Carolina cigarettes were probably only two cents a pack in 1953.