* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

77, No. 3 ( Sep., 1953 ), pp. 148 – 155.

* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer ( Tangerine Dream )

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 1953 – Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer ( The Osmonds )

* 1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Rush and Big Dirty Band )

* 1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright

* 1953 – Pope Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.

* 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer

* 1953 – Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater

* 1953 – Roberta Tovey, English actress and singer

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

* 1953 – Marjo, Canadian singer-songwriter ( Corbeau )

* 1953 – Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist ( Runrig )

* 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist

* 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist

* 1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician ( Keats )

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )

* 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English Politician

To harmonize practice and ceremonial shooting ( sharei ) in 1953 the All Nippon Kyudo Federation ( ANKF ) formed an establishing committee from the main schools to take the best elements of each school and form the ANKF style that is used today throughout Japan and in most kyudo federations in the west.

Kawara's first exhibitions include the first Nippon Exhibition, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, in 1953, and at the Takemiya and Hibiya galleries the following year.

The result was From Down Under to Nippon: the Story of the 6th Army In World War II, which was published in 1953.

* The Philco Television Playhouse-The Baby ( 1953 )

* Goodyear Television Playhouse-The Brownstone ( 1953 )

Television broadcasting began in 1953, and color television was introduced in 1960.

It was telecast live May 24, 1953, on The Goodyear Television Playhouse with Rod Steiger in the title role and Nancy Marchand, in her television debut, playing opposite him as Clara.

The original 1953 telecast is commercially available as part of a three-DVD set, " The Golden Age of Television " ( Criterion Collection ), a series which aired on PBS in 1981 with Eva Marie Saint as the host of Marty.

Television station KHOU signed on the air as KGUL-TV on March 23, 1953.

On May 24, 1953, an episode of Goodyear Television Playhouse jump-started his career.

Six years later, the film was itself adapted into a television series, starring Leon Ames and Lurene Tuttle, which ran from November 1953 until July 1955 on the CBS Television network.

In 1953, he appeared in a BBC Television adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff.

Starting before CBS color even got on the air, the U. S. television industry, represented by the National Television System Committee, worked in 1950 – 1953 to develop a color system that was compatible with existing black-and-white sets and would pass FCC quality standards, with RCA developing the hardware elements.

* Café Continental ( UK ) premieres on the BBC Television Service ) ( 1947 – 1953 ).

The first transmissions on the island of Ireland began with the launch of BBC in Northern Ireland ( BBC Northern Ireland ) when it began broadcasting television programmes in 1953, followed in 1959 with the launch of Ulster Television ( now known as UTV ).

Among her many starring roles was Wilma, a star-struck 15-year-old girl from the U. S. Gulf Coast of Texas in Horton Foote's A Young Lady of Property, which aired on The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse on April 5, 1953.

In 1953, Chayefsky wrote Marty, which was premiered on The Philco Television Playhouse, with Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand.

Over time, new electronic technologies brought new members and name changes, including Radio Television Manufacturers Association ( RTMA ) ( 1950 ), Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers ( RETMA ) ( 1953 ) and Electronics Industries Association ( EIA ) ( 1957 ).

Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland – based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bert and Nancy Claster as Romper Room Inc.

It was televised three times-on Broadway Previews ( 1946 ), The Philco Television Playhouse ( 1949 ) and the Kraft Television Theatre ( 1953 ).

In the United States, National Educational Television carried both WHA and CBC versions from 1953 until 1970, when NET ceded the network to the Public Broadcasting Service.

Category: Television channels and stations established in 1953

Czechoslovak Television started broadcasting in 1953 from Prague, in 1955 from Ostrava and in 1956 from Bratislava.

* So You Want a Television Set ( 1953 )

* The Quatermass Experiment ( BBC Television, 1953 )