February 1953
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The following events occurred in February 1953:
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 Ethel and Julius 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.[1]
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
- ↑ Mahoney vs Nitroform Co., 114 A.2d 863 (NJ Appellate Div 1955).
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