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November 1953

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The following events occurred in November 1953:

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November 5, 1953 (Thursday)

  • David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.

    • November 9, 1953 (Monday)

  • Cambodia becomes independent from France.
  • Saudi King Abdul Aziz al-Saud died.

    • November 10, 1953 (Tuesday)

    Guitarist Kenneth J Kettner was born in McHenry Illinois.

    November 20, 1953 (Friday)

  • The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 2.
  • Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax.

    • November 21, 1953 (Saturday)

  • Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.

    • November 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • England loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.

    • November 29, 1953 (Sunday)

  • French paratroopers take Điện Biên Phủ.

    • November 30, 1953 (Monday)

  • Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

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    November 1953 Wikipedia
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