January 1953 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1953 Ernest Blochs Suite Hebraique, premieres
• 02 Jan 1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
• 03 Jan 1953 Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 04 Jan 1953 KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 05 Jan 1953 Samuel Beckett's play ''Waiting For Godot'' has its first public stage première in French as ''En attendant Godot'' at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.
• 06 Jan 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Jan 1953 US President Harry Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb.
• 09 Jan 1953 Korean ferryboat Chang Tyong-Ho sank off Pusan killing 249
• 10 Jan 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish.
• 11 Jan 1953 J Edgar Hoover declines six-figure offer to become president of the International Boxing Club.
• 12 Jan 1953 Estonian émigrés found a government in exile in Oslo.
• 13 Jan 1953 KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 14 Jan 1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 15 Jan 1953 Sixteen-car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington DC station.
• 16 Jan 1953 KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
• 17 Jan 1953 The General Motors Motorama opens to the general public in New York City. The prototype Chevrolet Corvette "Dream Car" is displayed to the public for the first time. The roadster is white with red interior, fiberglass body, 235-cid straight-6 engine, and two-speed automatic. Also on display at the Motorama: Buick fiberglass-bodied two-passenger Wildcat, Oldsmobile fiberglass-bodied four-passenger convertible Starfire, Cadillac fiberglass-bodied two-passenger roadster Le Mans.
• 18 Jan 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open.
• 19 Jan 1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary.
• 20 Jan 1953 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo, New York
• 21 Jan 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State.
• 22 Jan 1953 ''The Crucible'', a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
• 23 Jan 1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (later Indianapolis Colts).
• 25 Jan 1953 WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 27 Jan 1953 Netherlands ends Marshall Plan aid.
• 28 Jan 1953 WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 29 Jan 1953 First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres.
• 31 Jan 1953 Princess Victoria capsized off Stanraer Scotland

Famous Birthday

• Jim Jarmusch

  American film-maker with a Czech-German-French-Irish background.

• Richard Anconina

  French actor whose notable films include Tchao Pantin, Police, Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté, Le Petit Criminel, and La Vérité si je mens!.

• Pat Benatar

  Rock Singer.

• Malcolm Young

  Scottish-Australian musician, a rhythm guitarist with the rock group "AC/DC.

• Paul Allen

  American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft.

• Paul Allen

  American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft.

• Anicée Alvina

  French singer and actress.

• Philippe Douste-Blazy

  French centre-right politician.

• Lucinda Williams

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Lucinda Williams

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Michael Wilding Jr
• Desi Arnaz Jr
• Dalila Di Lazzaro

  Italian model, actress and writer.

• Jean-Marie Le Guen

  French doctor, public health expert, and member of the National Assembly of France.

• Robin Zander

  American musician, the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band, Cheap Trick begnning in 1972.

• Alpha Blondy

  [Seydou Kone] in the Ivory Coast; reggae singer (Jerusalem).

• Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Secretary General of NATO.

• Woo-suk Hwang
• Silvana Gallardo

  American actress and producer (d. 2012).

• Patrick Le Gal
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Famous Deaths

• Derek Bentley

  British homicide accomplice who suffered from a head injury at four when he fell 15 feet; the injury left him learning disabled, with severe...

• Arthur Hoyt

  Actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78.

• Theo Mackeben

  German pianist / Composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56.

• Marcel Canneel

  Flemish painter, dies at 58.

• Simeon Roncal

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Viktor Patrick Vretblad

  Composer, dies at 76.

• [Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt

  Gen-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77.

• Heinrich Kaspar Schmid

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Ernst H Ridder Rappard

  Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at age 53.

• Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal

  Dutch resistance fighter, dies at age 68.

• Admiral Sir Hugh Binney

  British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (Born 1883).

• Hank Williams

  American singer-songwriter and musician, AKA 'Bocephus.

• Osa Johnson

  American director and explorer (d. 1953).

• Athanase David

  Canadian politician and businessman (Born 1882).

• James Scullin

  Australian journalist and politician 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953).

• Noach Zjordanija

  Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at age 84.

• Hans Aanrud

  Norwegian Author (Storken), dies at 89.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Bye Bye Blues
2. Joni James - Have You Heard
3. Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra - Pretend
4. Ralph Flanagan & His Orchestra - Hot Toddy
5. Eddie Fisher - Even Now

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Al Martino - Here In My Heart
2. Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me
3. Kay Starr - Comes A-Long A-Love
4. Bing Crosby - The Isle Of Innisfree
5. Eddie Fisher - Outside Of Heaven