November 1953 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in November 1953.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on November 1953: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of November 1953?

Events

01 Nov 1953 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4)
02 Nov 1953 Pakistan becomes Islamic Republic
03 Nov 1953 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
04 Nov 1953 Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia Athletics
05 Nov 1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded / appended on Frederik Zernicke
06 Nov 1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
07 Nov 1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
08 Nov 1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
09 Nov 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
10 Nov 1953 Giants end their tour of Japan
11 Nov 1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
12 Nov 1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Premier of Israel
14 Nov 1953 WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Nov 1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
17 Nov 1953 St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
18 Nov 1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
19 Nov 1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
20 Nov 1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, first to break Mach 2 (1300mph).
21 Nov 1953 Pitdown Man, discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
23 Nov 1953 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
24 Nov 1953 Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954
25 Nov 1953 Guys & Dolls closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 1200 performances
26 Nov 1953 KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
28 Nov 1953 Wish You Were Here closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 performances
29 Nov 1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
30 Nov 1953 French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu

Famous Birthday

Dominique de Villepin
former Prime Minister of France.
Patrick Sébastien
French television host, producer and classy personality (mainly on TF1 and France 2), radio host, singer, writer, producer, director,...
Francis Cabrel
French singer, sing-writer and guitarist, born to a blue-collar worker coming from Italy and to a cashier.
Lynda Hill
Australian full-time pro astrologer, a writer and researcher.
Althea Flynt
American publisher with her husband of the Hustler magazine.
Patrick de Carolis
Kate Capshaw
American actress in TV and films.
Rebecca Gilling
Australian sexy model and actress who started her TV career on "Number 96.
Alex Grey
American painter author and educator.
Christine Pascal
French actress and stage director.
Steve Bannon
Eike Batista
Griff Rhys-Jones
British sketch comedian of memorable TV series.
Alessandro Momo
Rosemary West
Alan Moore
British comic book writer and novelist.
Dennis Miller
American comedian actor producer and talk show host.
Robert Beltran
Latino-American actor, most recently in "Star Trek: Voyager" as Commander Chakotay.
Tina Brown
British-American editor known as irreverent, witty, sophisticated and bright.
Kevin Nealon
Bridgeport, Connecticut -- Actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads).
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Famous Deaths

Dylan Thomas
Welsh writer of poetry, short story, movie scenarios and radio scripts, immensely talented.
John Parsons Beach
Composer, dies at 76.
Iwan Bunin
Writer, dies at 83.
John van Melle
South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66.
George Alexander Russell
Composer, dies at 73.
Robert H Lightfoot
English Theologist / exegetist, dies at 70.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1870).
Francis Picabia
French painter and poet (Born 1857).
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Composer, dies at 89.
Princess Irene
of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1866).
Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (Born 1884).
Alfons Fryland
Austrian actor (Born 1888).
Milt Gross
American comic book illustrator and animator (Born 1895).
Larry Shields
American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (d. 1953).
Francis Picabia
French painter and poet (Born 1857).
Sam De Grasse
Canadian-American actor (d. 1953).
King Abdul
Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (Born 1880).
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