Winston Churchill receive his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
Tag: 1953
29 May 1953
Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
19 January 1953
Nearly 3/4th of all television sets in the USA are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
26 July 1953
Fidel Castro leads an attack on the Moncada Barracks that fails, but begins the Cuban Revolution.
29 May 1953
The New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
13 January 1953
Pravda publishes an article that accuses some of the most prestigious doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a plot to…