The following events occurred in September 1953:
The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept China as a member.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
A hurricane in South-East Asia kills over 1,000 people.
The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.
Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.
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