August 1953

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The following events occurred in August 1953:

August 1, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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August 2, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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August 3, 1953 (Monday)[]

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August 4, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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August 5, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated after the Korean War.

August 6, 1953 (Thursday)[]

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August 7, 1953 (Friday)[]

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August 8, 1953 (Saturday)[]

• Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
• London Agreement on German External Debts concluded, writing off 50% of repayable war debt by the Federal Republic of Germany to its creditors.
• Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap) was born at 12:30

August 9, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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August 10, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Pete Schoening saves members of the American K2 expedition, one of the most famous events in mountaineering history.

August 11, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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August 12, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• A magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
• Soviet atomic bomb project: "Joe 4" – The first Soviet thermonuclear weapon is detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR.

August 13, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.

August 14, 1953 (Friday)[]

Born: James Horner, American film composer (d. 2015)

August 15, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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August 16, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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August 17, 1953 (Monday)[]

• The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California (see October 5).

August 18, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• The second Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published in the US.

August 19, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax).

August 20, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• The French government ousts King Mohammed V of Morocco and exiles him to Corsica.
• The United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.

August 21, 1953 (Friday)[]

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August 22, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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August 23, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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August 24, 1953 (Monday)[]

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August 25, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• The general strike ends in France.

August 26, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

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August 27, 1953 (Thursday)[]

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August 28, 1953 (Friday)[]

• Nippon TV launches, becoming Japan's First Commercial Television Channel.

August 29, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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August 30, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• Died:
  • Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881)
  • Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist (b. 1884)

August 31, 1953 (Monday)[]

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