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1953 TIMELINE
SVHS REUNION 2003

 
Washington D.C. - Dwight D. Eisenhower was President
 
World Series - New York (AL) 4, Brooklyn (NL) 2
 
Academy Awards - From Here to Eternity won Best Picture
 
Television - I Love Lucy was the #1 show
 
March: Josef Stalin, premier of the U.S.S.R., dies.
 
March: The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare is created

April: Francis Crick and James Watson discover the structure (double helix) and function of DNA.
 
May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest. 
 
May: Thirteen women, the first ever admitted, graduate from Harvard Law School.
 
June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as Soviet spies.
 
July: Armistice is signed with North Korea; 38th parallel established.
 
August: The Soviet Union announces that it has detonated a hydrogen bomb.
 
September: Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier.
 
September: The Allies form West Germany as an independent state.
 
 

142 ADDITIONAL EVENTS FROM 1953

JOSEPH MCCARTHY (27 PHOTOS)

SVHS REUNION 2003

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