1953 - The Indiana Hoosiers defeat the Kansas Jayhawks in the NCAA championship game.
1953 - Albert Einstein is presented with a scale model of the medical school named for him.
1953 - French commandos teach Vietnam soldiers hand-to-hand combat and stealth tactics in a simulate attack.
1953 - In this animated film Bluto makes Olive Oyl's leaky sink worse and Popeye fixes it, causing Bluto to pretend to concede defeat.
1953 - US Marines test drive the durable Mighty Mite, their successor to the jeep.
1953 - Winston Churchill arrives in New York on the Queen Mary, where Irish protestors are gathered and he is met by Bernard Baruch.
1953 - Women model different kinds of comfortable, stylish slippers in berths on a train.
1953 - Huge crowds of east Berliners line up for the distribution of surplus butter in west Berlin.
1953 - Mal Whitfield sets two new records in a Knights of Columbus track meet held at Madison Square Garden.
1953 - An aircraft carrier loaded with fighter planes departs from the US to France as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to fight the communists.
1953 - US Navy sailors shovel snow off the flight deck of the USS Oriskany, and fighter planes carry out air strikes on Korea.
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USA - 1953 - A farmer has success harvesting hybrid corn with a mechanical picker.
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1953 - Cars drive out of a parking lot and a truck convoy heads towards the barracks of Albrook Air Force Base in Balboa, Panama.
1953 - Firemen look over the wreckage after a destructive fire on a city block.
1953 - Bermuda's governor, Sir Alexander Hood, tours Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip around the island where they are cheered by flag-waving crowds.
1953 - Military families patronize a movie theater, post office, and bank outside Albrook Air Force Base in Balboa, Panama.
1953 - Generals Harrison and Nam Il sign the Korean Armistice Agreement, and American servicemen transported by ship are welcomed back home to New York by families waiting on the docks.
Oklahoma is traditionally home to native American Indians, who still live in the state in 1953.
1953 - Palm trees line residential areas in Balboa, Panama.
1953 - Cars, mannequins and replicas of homes are set up on proving grounds in Nevada so soldiers can observe how they are affected by a nuclear bomb blast.
1953 - The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is opened under the Eisenhower administration (narrated in 1956).
USA - 1953 - In this mystery movie, a reporter on a night beat notes the sights and sounds of a gritty urban street.
1953 - Wreckage in a Turkish city is seen after a devastating earthquake, and injured people are seen.
The greatest and most successful product from the southwestern region of the United States in 1953 is its petroleum production.
USA - 1953 - In this mystery movie, an investigative reporter tries to question a dock worker about a murder but the man is caught up in his dinner.
1953 - The 83rd Congress is convened under Senate Majority Leader Taft and Speaker Martin.
USA - 1953 - In this mystery movie, an investigative reporter tells a woman that her husband accidentally drowned while trying to retrieve her purse.
1953 - Cars and people pass by the commissary of Albrook Air Force Base in Balboa, Panama.
1953 - A nuclear bomb is detonated on the proving grounds in Mercury, Nevada.
Texas, the southernmost southwestern state, is a great source of cotton during the 1930s, and African Americans work on the farm to harvest the cotton for use.
Joseph Stalin dies and Nikita Khrushchev takes over, developing nuclear power and ballistic missiles are launched from submarines, in 1953.
1953 - In this Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animated film, King Midas sits on his throne wishing for more gold, then visits his young daughter as she picks flowers from the garden.
1953 - In this animated film, Olive Oyl stuffs up her kitchen sink to stop it from dripping and it bursts.
1953 - Scientists work at an Atomic Energy Commission Plant.
1953 - American soldiers use Geiger counters to inspect radiation levels after a nuclear bomb test in Mercury, Nevada.
USA - 1953 - In this mystery movie, a deep sea diver tells an investigative reporter that there's a dead body under the pier.
1953 - People inspect the wreckage after an atom bomb test in Nevada, which destroyed many replica homes.
1953 - People inspect the aftermath of an atom bomb test in Nevada, where one house and the mannequins inside seem to be all right.
1953 - Senator McCarthy contends that despite Dwight Eisenhower's hopes and President Truman's denials, communism is a hot issue responsible for all of America's ills.
1953 - American soldiers visit children at an orphanage in South Korea.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II's coronation is overseen by archbishops of the Church of England in Westminster Abbey of London, England.
1953 - The Amazon Annie atomic artillery gun is successfully test-fired by the US Army.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev watches a parade in Moscow's Red Square celebrating the anniversary of the end of the Russian Revolution with parade of military equipment.
1953 - The UN's headquarters are shown in New York City, with a General Assembly in progress.
1953 - Lebanese representative Edward Rizk records a radio broadcast at the UN.
In Northern Oklahoma coal and zinc are mined in large quantities, with large mines providing employment for many workers in 1953.
1953 - Spanish architecture is highlighted near Albrook Air Force Base in Balboa, Panama.
USA - 1953 - In this mystery movie, a man invites an investigative reporter to share a drink at a bar.