September 1953 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
• 03 Sep 1953 French Minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
• 04 Sep 1953 WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
• 05 Sep 1953 US give Persian Premier Zahedi $45 million aid
• 06 Sep 1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
• 07 Sep 1953 67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart
• 08 Sep 1953 Carnival in Flanders opens at New Century Theater New York for 6 performances
• 09 Sep 1953 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
• 11 Sep 1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 12 Sep 1953 Carnival in Flanders closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 performances
• 13 Sep 1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia Athletics
• 14 Sep 1953 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry
• 15 Sep 1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 17 Sep 1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
• 19 Sep 1953 Hazel Flagg closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 performances
• 20 Sep 1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
• 21 Sep 1953 KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 22 Sep 1953 Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia
• 23 Sep 1953 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 Sep 1953 Take a Giant Step, opens on Broadway
• 26 Sep 1953 Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game
• 27 Sep 1953 KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins
• 28 Sep 1953 Bob & Ray Show, TV Variety
• 29 Sep 1953 Buick-Berle Show, debuts on NBC-TV
• 30 Sep 1953 Auguste / Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m

Famous Birthday

• Ségolène Royal

  French politician, a member of the Socialist Party who drew attention in 2007 when she was the first woman in France to be nominated by a...

• Amma (spiritual leader)
• Mammootty
• Taryn Power

  American actress and noted family, the daughter of Tyrone Power and Linda Christian, only two when her parents divorced and seven when she...

• Mireille Dumas

  French TV presenter and producer of Italian descent (by her mother).

• North Korea
• Ahmad Shah Massoud
• Michèle Baumgartner
• Iyanla Vanzant

  TV Show Host.

• Anne Chopinet
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  French film director, he won a prestigious César award for his 1980 short film "Le Manège.

• John Zorn

  American saxophonist composer and producer (Naked City Masada and Painkiller).

• François Goulard

  French politician, a member of the National Assembly of France.

• Amy Irving

  American actress from the age of nine months when she made her stage debut in "Rumpelstiltskin.

• Philippe Risoli
• Patrick Kron

  French business leader, the chairman and chief executive (Président-directeur général) of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom.

• J Lee Lehman
• Jean Codognès
• Keith Allen
• Arthur Joffé
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Famous Deaths

• Emil Ermatinger

  Switz, literature critic, dies at 80.

• Henry Holden Huss

  Composer, dies at 91.

• Dimitur Poljanov [Popov]

  Bulgaria Poet (Iron Verses).

• Jules-Marie Canneel

  Flemish Painter / caricaturist, dies at 72.

• Berthold Viertel

  Writer, dies at 68.

• Colin G Fink

  US chemist (electro-chemistry).

• Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV

  U.

• Edwin P Hubble

  astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at age 63.

• Richard Walther Darre

  Nazi politician (Born 1895).

• Edwin Hubble

  American astronomer, one of the major figures in 20th century science.

• Jacques Thibaud

  French musician, a concert violinist, from a noted family, the brother of pianist Joseph Thibaud (born 25 February 1875).

• Bernard O'Dowd

  Australian journalist author and poet (d. 1953).

• Charles de Tornaco

  Belgian race car driver (d. 1953).

• Xu Beihong

  Chinese painter and academic (d. 1953).

• Hugo Schmeisser

  German weapons designer and engineer (d. 1953).

• Roger Quilter

  British composer, dies at 75.

• Lewis Stone

  Actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky - A Dear John Letter
2. Julius LaRosa - Eh Cumpari
3. Tony Bennett - Rags To Riches
4. Stan Freberg - St. George and the Dragonet
5. Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra (Henri Rene - accordion) - The Velvet Glove

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frankie Laine - I Believe
2. Guy Mitchell - Look At That Girl
3. Mantovani - The Song From The Moulin Rouge
4. Frank Chacksfield - Terry's Theme (From 'Limelight')
5. Eddie Fisher With Sally Sweetland - I'm Walking Behind You