February 1953

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The following events occurred in February 1953:

February 1, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• The surge of the North Sea flood continues from January 31.

February 2, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Died:Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)

February 3, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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February 4, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

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February 5, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
• Sweet rationing ended in the UK.[1]
• Died: Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)

February 6, 1953 (Friday)[]

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February 7, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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February 8, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• Born:Mary Steenburgen, American actress

February 9, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Died:Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)

February 10, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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February 11, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the "Doctors' plot".

February 12, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
• Died: Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)

February 13, 1953 (Friday)[]

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February 14, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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February 15, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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February 16, 1953 (Monday)[]

• The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.

February 17, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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February 18, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

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February 19, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States (→ Book censorship in the United States).
• Born: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine politician, former President of Argentina and current Vice President of Argentina
• Died: Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

February 20, 1953 (Friday)[]

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February 21, 1953 (Saturday)[]

• Nitroform Products Company plant in Newark was destroyed by an explosion.^[1]

February 22, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• Born:Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)

February 23, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Died:Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, British colonial administrator (b. 1874)

February 24, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• Died:Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)

February 25, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
• Died:Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

February 26, 1953 (Thursday)[]

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Michael Bolton, was born in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 27, 1953 (Friday)[]

• Died: Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)

February 28, 1953 (Saturday)[]

• James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
• Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.
• Joseph Stalin held a party at his Volynskoe dacha. The party broke up on 4 AM the following day, 1 March.

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