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February 1953

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The following events occurred in February 1953:

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February 1, 1953 (Sunday)

  • The surge of the North Sea flood continues from January 31.

    • February 2, 1953 (Monday)

  • Died:Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)

    • February 5, 1953 (Thursday)

  • Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
  • Died:Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)

    • February 9, 1953 (Monday)

  • Died:Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)

    • February 11, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
  • The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the "Doctors' plot".

    • February 12, 1953 (Thursday)

  • The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
  • Died:Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)

    • February 13, 1953 (Friday)

  • Transsexual Christine Jorgensen returns to New York after successful sex reassignment surgery in Denmark.

    • February 16, 1953 (Monday)

  • The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.

    • February 19, 1953 (Thursday)

  • Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
  • Died:Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

    • February 21, 1953 (Saturday)

  • Nitroform Products Company plant in Newark was destroyed by an explosion.

    • February 22, 1953 (Sunday)

  • Born:Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)

    • February 23, 1953 (Monday)

  • Died:Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, British colonial administrator (b. 1874)

    • February 24, 1953 (Tuesday)

  • Died:Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)

    • February 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
  • Died:Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

    • February 27, 1953 (Friday)

  • Died:Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)

    • February 28, 1953 (Saturday)

  • James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
  • Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.

    • References

    February 1953 Wikipedia
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