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August 1953

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The following events occurred in August 1953:

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August 5, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated after the Korean War.

    • August 8, 1953 (Saturday)

  • Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
  • London Agreement on German External Debts concluded, writing off 50% of repayable war debt by the Federal Republic of Germany to its creditors.

    • August 12, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • A magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
  • Soviet atomic bomb project: "Joe 4" – The first Soviet thermonuclear weapon is detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR.

    • August 13, 1953 (Thursday)

  • Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.

    • August 14, 1953 (Friday)

    Born: James Horner, American film composer (d. 2015)

    August 17, 1953 (Monday)

  • The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California (see October 5).

    • August 18, 1953 (Tuesday)

    The second Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published in the US.

    August 19, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax).

    • August 20, 1953 (Thursday)

  • The French government ousts King Mohammed V of Morocco and exiles him to Corsica.
  • The United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.

    • August 25, 1953 (Tuesday)

  • The general strike ends in France.

    • August 30, 1953 (Sunday)

  • Died:
  • Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881)
  • Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist (b. 1884)

    • References

    August 1953 Wikipedia
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