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April 1953

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The following events occurred in April 1953:

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April 7, 1953 (Tuesday)

  • Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary-General.

    • April 8, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising.

    • April 10, 1953 (Friday)

  • The Melbourne Knights is founded as Croatia SC in Melbourne.

    • April 13, 1953 (Monday)

  • Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the United Kingdom.
  • The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.

    • April 16, 1953 (Thursday)

  • President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech to the National Association of Newspaper Editors
  • A four-story building in Chicago belonging to the Habar Corporation catches fire, killing 35 employees.

    • April 17, 1953 (Friday)

  • Mickey Mantle hits a 565-foot (172 m) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.

    • April 20, 1953 (Monday)

  • Frank Sinatra and the arranger Nelson Riddle began their first recording sessions together at Capitol Records, which would result in some of the defining recordings of Sinatra's career.

    • April 25, 1953 (Saturday)

  • Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA

    • April 27, 1953 (Monday)

  • Died:Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; former wife of John MacBride (b. 1866)

    • April 28, 1953 (Tuesday)

  • Born:Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author (d. 2003)

    • April 29, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Died:Kiki de Montparnasse, French artists' model (b. 1901)

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    April 1953 Wikipedia
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