January 1953

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The following events occurred in January 1953:

January 1, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Died: Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923)

January 2, 1953 (Friday)[]

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January 3, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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January 4, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• Died:
  • Arthur Hoyt, American actor (b. 1874)
  • Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Japanese prince (b. 1902)

January 5, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot had its first public stage première (in French as En attendant Godot) at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.

January 6, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• The Asian Socialist Conference opened in Rangoon, Burma.

January 7, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
• Died: Osa Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1894)

January 8, 1953 (Thursday)[]

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January 9, 1953 (Friday)[]

• Chang Cheong-ho, a South Korean passenger ship, capsized by strong wind near the Port of Busan, according to local coast guard officials. 229 persons were confirmed perished.^{[page needed]}
• Died: Marguerite Pitre (aka Madame le Corbeau), Canadian murderer (b. 1909)

January 10, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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January 11, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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January 12, 1953 (Monday)[]

• Estonian émigrés founded a government-in-exile in Oslo.

January 13, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• Died: Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872)

January 14, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Marshal Josip Broz Tito was chosen to be President of Yugoslavia.
• The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first met to discuss the UFO phenomenon.

January 15, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, was arrested for spying.

January 16, 1953 (Friday)[]

• Born: Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi and founder of the terrorist group The Order (d. 1984)

January 17, 1953 (Saturday)[]

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January 18, 1953 (Sunday)[]

• Born: B. K. Misra, Neurosurgeon ^[1]

January 19, 1953 (Monday)[]

• 71.1% of all television sets in the United States were tuned to CBS to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky on I Love Lucy, a larger audience than watched Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day. This record has yet to be broken.

January 20, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

• Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as 34th President of the United States.
• Born: Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (d. 2019)

January 21, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Died: Mary Mannering, early 20th century English stage actress (b. 1876)

January 22, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway.

January 23, 1953 (Friday)[]

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January 24, 1953 (Saturday)[]

• Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya killed the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).
• Walter Ulbricht announced that agriculture would be collectivized in East Germany.
• Born: Moon Jae-in, 19th President of the Republic of Korea

January 25, 1953 (Sunday)[]

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January 26, 1953 (Monday)[]

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January 27, 1953 (Tuesday)[]

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January 28, 1953 (Wednesday)[]

• Derek Bentley was executed for murder at Wandsworth Prison in London.
• Died: James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)

January 29, 1953 (Thursday)[]

• Born: Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)

January 30, 1953 (Friday)[]

• Died: Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867)

January 31, 1953 (Saturday)[]

• The North Sea flood of 1953 killed 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom^[2][3] and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea. It will continue until February 1.

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