The following events occurred in June 1953:
Uprising in Plzeň: Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
Died:Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
Died:Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (d. 1987)
Died:
William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876)
Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887)
Italian general election: the Christian Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses.
Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan (the last to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado).
Austria and the Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
Ivo Sanader, the "Čaća", was born.
CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKUltra subproject.
Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
Died:Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884)
Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
Died:Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877)
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.
Workers Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
Egypt declares itself a republic.
Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history at this time and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100.
Died:René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894)
Baton Rouge bus boycott begins.
Died:
Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day)
Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896)
Born:Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
Born:Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
Born:Cyndi Lauper, American singer, songwriter, and actress
Died:Lavrentiy Beria, KGB chief (b. 1899)
The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.
First roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne.
Died:Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874)
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