#2: On January 7 of the same year President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.
#3: On January 14 the CIA-sponsored "Robertson Panel" first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.
#4: On January 19 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to "I Love Lucy" to watch Lucy give birth.
#5: On January 26 Walter Ulbricht announces that the agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.
#6: On February 19 Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
7# On February 28 James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
#8: On March 17 the first Nuclear test in Nevada, with 1620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 miles).
#9: On March 26 Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
#10: On April 13 Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
#11: On May 18 at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
#12: On May 29 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.
Note: the info above, except my birthday, are taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953 . If you enter any year in Google -no need to add anything else besides the year- you will find a wealth of information of what has been happening during that year...:-)
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