27 October 1953 October 26, 2015 Author: Staff Great Britian tests a nuclear bomb at Emu Field, South Australia. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." Ernest Hemingway — Click here for more from Ernest Hemingway Related posts: 29 August 1949 13 January 1953 29 May 1953 26 July 1953 19 January 1953 29 May 1953 18 March 1953 24 April 1953 26 April 1986 14 September 1954 Categories: History Tags: 1953, 27 October