* 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

* 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.

In 1953, Eisenhower threatened the use of Nuclear Weapons to end the Korean War if the Chinese refused to negotiate.

He became a member of the first Bundestag ( Federal Parliament ) in 1949 and, in 1953, Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the second cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in 1955 Federal Minister of Nuclear Energy, and in 1956 defence minister, charged with the build-up of the new Bundeswehrthe youngest man to hold this office at the time.

After graduating from University of Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1953, at the age of 23, with an engineering degree in industrial chemistry she went into a graduate scholarship program with the national Nuclear Energy Board.

* A December, 1953 article in Mechanix Illustrated Magazine called " How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race ", warned that in the event of an " Atom War ", a mutant species of supermen might arise to assist -- or to dominate -- humanity.

From 1953 onwards, Salmeron lived in Europe, first doing his Ph. D. from 1953 to 1955 at the University of Manchester, under Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize winner of Physics, and then as an associate researcher in the European Centre of Nuclear Research ( CERN ), in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1955 to 1963.

While there, he was one of eight delegates with a background in guided weapons projects to address the Fourth International Congress of Astronautics in Zurich in August 1953, at a time when, as The New York Times reported, most scientists saw space flight as thinly disguised science fiction.

Nehru was hailed by many for working to defuse global tensions and the threat of nuclear weapons after the Korean war ( 1950 – 1953 ).

* 1953 – Cold War: U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162 / 2, which states that the United States ' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

* 1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer ( d. 1953 )

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

** September 24 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer ( d. 1953 )

Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November, 1953, as part of a CIA experiment and died under suspicious circumstances a week later.

In turn, the U. S. countered by developing the vastly more powerful thermonuclear weapon, testing their first hydrogen bomb in 1952 at Ivy Mike, but the USSR quickly countered by testing their own thermonuclear weapons, with a test in 1953 of a semi-thermonuclear weapon of the Sloika design, and in 1956, with the testing of Sakharov's Third Idea – equivalent to the Castle Bravo device.

Production from the open cut area started in 1953 and proved to be one of the largest economic influences in the development of the Top End, with sales to the United Kingdom for their atomic weapons program.

By threatening to use nuclear weapons in 1953, Eisenhower ended the war with a truce that is still in effect.

Philip K. Dick's 1953 short story " Second Variety " features self-replicating robot weapons, this time with the added theme of weapons imitating humans.

Adenauer did not want his country to become a bargaining chip between the United States and the Soviet Union, nor did he want it to become a nuclear battlefield, a prospect raised by the arrival of American tactical nuclear weapons in 1953 as part of the Eisenhower administration's New Look policy.

Although the JCS paper did not recommend any fundamental changes, the National Security Council in October 1953 adopted a key tenet of the New Look that a large-scale limited war or a general war would likely be fought with nuclear weapons.

In 1953, the plant began production of bomb components, manufacturing plutonium triggers, or " pits ", which were used at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas to assemble nuclear weapons.

In 1953, extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing occurred at the test site, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole.

In 1953 the Research Directorate began a weapons data-indexing project and maintained a technical library for all data on USAF contributions to the atomic energy program.

During one of those, in 1953, the Sliding Albion reality entered its first World War, and bacterium weapons were unleashed on their London.

In 1953 Oppenheimer stated in the July edition of Foreign Affairs that he believed the Soviets were " about four years behind " in atomic weapons development.

The Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) was largely fought using World War II weapons and equipment, and the Marine Corps helmets and camouflage covers were basically the same as those used during World War II.

Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, although isolated engagements continued into the 1960s.

Hugo Schmeisser ( 24 September 1884 – 12 September 1953 ) was a German developer of infantry weapons in the 20th century.

He was the father of Hugo Schmeisser ( 1884 – 1953 ), who was also a famous designer of infantry weapons, including several key components of the German Wehrmacht MP40.

The MGR-1 Honest John was the first of such weapons, developed in 1953 as a surface-to-surface missile with a 15 mile / 25 kilometer maximum range.