January 1953

January 1, 1953 (Thursday)

• Died: Hank Williams, American musician

  January 2, 1953 (Friday)

January 3, 1953 (Saturday)

January 4, 1953 (Sunday)

• Died:
• * Arthur Hoyt, American actor
• * Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Japanese prince

  January 5, 1953 (Monday)

• Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot had its first public stage première at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.

  January 6, 1953 (Tuesday)

• The Asian Socialist Conference opened in Rangoon, Burma.

  January 7, 1953 (Wednesday)

• U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
• Died: Osa Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker

  January 8, 1953 (Thursday)

January 9, 1953 (Friday)

• Chang Cheong-ho, a South Korean passenger ship, capsized by strong wind near the Port of Busan, according to local coast guard officials. 229 persons were confirmed perished.
• Died: Marguerite Pitre, Canadian murderer

  January 10, 1953 (Saturday)

January 11, 1953 (Sunday)

January 12, 1953 (Monday)

• Estonian émigrés founded a government-in-exile in Oslo.

  January 13, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Died: Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant

  January 14, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Marshal Josip Broz Tito was chosen to be President of Yugoslavia.
• The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first met to discuss the UFO phenomenon.

  January 15, 1953 (Thursday)

• Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, was arrested for spying.

  January 16, 1953 (Friday)

• Born: Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi and founder of the terrorist group The Order

  January 17, 1953 (Saturday)

January 18, 1953 (Sunday)

January 19, 1953 (Monday)

• 71.1% of all television sets in the United States were tuned to CBS to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky on I Love Lucy, a larger audience than watched Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day. This record has yet to be broken.

  January 20, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as 34th President of the United States.
• Born: Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender

  January 21, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Died: Mary Mannering, early 20th century English stage actress

  January 22, 1953 (Thursday)

• The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway.

  January 23, 1953 (Friday)

January 24, 1953 (Saturday)

• Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya killed the Ruck family.
• Walter Ulbricht announced that agriculture would be collectivized in East Germany.
• Born: Moon Jae-in, 19th President of the Republic of Korea

  January 25, 1953 (Sunday)

January 26, 1953 (Monday)

January 27, 1953 (Tuesday)

January 28, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Derek Bentley was executed for murder at Wandsworth Prison in London.
• Died: James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia

  January 29, 1953 (Thursday)

• Born: Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer

  January 30, 1953 (Friday)

• Died: Lionel Belmore, English actor

  January 31, 1953 (Saturday)

• The North Sea flood of 1953 killed 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands, 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry in the Irish Sea. It will continue until February 1.