* 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7. 3 on the Richter scale.

In 1950, the company announced the DB2, followed by the DB2 / 4 in 1953, the DB2 / 4 MkII in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the Italian-styled 3. 7 L DB4 in 1958.

* Hero of Socialist Labour, three times ( August 12, 1953, June 20, 1956, March 7, 1962 )

In 1953 there were only 1, 000, 000 sets in West Germany ; by 1962 there were 7 million ( Connor 1990: 49 ) ( Hoffman 1990: 69 ).

* 1953 – 71. 7 % of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

The city's highest rainfall in 24 hours occurred on 7 August 1953, when about of rain lashed the city, resulting in major flooding.

This figures compares with only 17. 7 percent in 1953.

In 1953, he married Elizabeth " Betty " Bottomley She was born on October 7, 1930 in Auburn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Frank Bottomley and Helen McLaren.

All this contributed to Treatt's Coalition being defeated at the 14 February 1953 election, with a total loss of ten seats and a swing against them of 7. 2 %.

They finished the season as the 8th team in NFL history to rank # 1 in overall offense ( 395. 6 yards / game ), and overall defense ( 271. 6 yards / game ), and became only the 2nd of those teams to not make the playoffs ( 1953 Eagles 7 – 4 – 1 ).

* September 7 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer ( d. 1953 )

* June 7 – Italian general election, 1953: The Christian Democrats win a plurality in both legislative houses.

* March 1 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U. S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.

141 ) to provide military, economic, and technical assistance to friendly nations in the interest of international peace and security, but was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953, effective August 1, 1953, and its functions were transferred to the Foreign Operations Administration.

It replaced the previous national holiday held in West Germany on 17 June commemorating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany and the national holiday on 7 October in the GDR.

The name was not originally chosen by Chad Varah: it was part of a headline to an article in the Daily Mirror newspaper on 7 December 1953 about Varah's work.

He did his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( 1949 – 53 ), and received a Ph. D. in mathematics from Cornell University ( 1953 – 7 ).

** Runners-up ( 7 ): 1953, 1955, 1958, 1980, 1986, 1992, 2005

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 7 was legislated onto its current alignment, with the northern terminus moved to the Nutley / Clifton border.

Benjamin Montmorency " Benmont " Tench III ( born September 7, 1953 ) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The village of Franklin incorporated on November 8, 1953, the village of Bingham Farms on June 7, 1955, and the village of Beverly Hills ( originally named the Village of Westwood ) in April, 1958.

On May 23, 1953, Henderson, with its population of 7, 410, elected Dr. Jim French as the town's first Mayor.

* Abner Charles Powell ( December 15, 1860-August 7, 1953 )- Professional baseball player, manager, owner and innovator.

* Palladium Concert 1953 ( 2005 ) CD Group 7

In 1953, the Braves promoted him to the Jacksonville Braves, their Class-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain.

The predecessor to Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida, as Insta-Burger King.

When the predecessor of Burger King first opened in Jacksonville in 1953, its menu consisted predominantly of basic hamburgers, french fries, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts.

The following year the Post / CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Constructed in 1953, the bridge brings traffic along the Arlington Expressway between downtown Jacksonville and the Arlington neighborhood.

Although its only competition in the Jacksonville market came from UHF station WJHP-TV ( which signed on in 1953 and went dark three years later ), the station had a virtual monopoly on television in northern Florida until 1957, when it lost the NBC affiliation to upstart WFGA ( now WTLV ).

* 1953 ( 1 ) Baton Rouge Open

In 1953, the SWP's national committee issued an Open Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World and organised the International Committee of the Fourth International ( ICFI ).

After Ben Hogan won that championship in 1953, few American professionals had travelled to play in The Open, due to its travel requirements, relatively small prize purses, and the style of its links courses ( radically different from most American courses ).

In particular, Palmer travelled to Scotland in 1960, having already won both the Masters and U. S. Open, to try to emulate Hogan's feat of 1953, of winning all three in a single year.

* 1953 Ohio Amateur, Cleveland Amateur, Greensburg Invitational, Mayfield Heights Open, Evergreen Pitch and Putt Invitational

At the US Open, Graf defeated Sabatini in a three-set final to win the Calendar Year Grand Slam, a feat previously performed by only two other women, Maureen Connolly Brinker in 1953 and Margaret Court in 1970.

During this period, The Open often had a schedule conflict with the match-play PGA Championship, which meant that Ben Hogan, the best American golfer at this time, competed in The Open just once, in 1953 at Carnoustie, a tournament he won.

The modern definition could not be applied until at least 1934, when the Masters was founded, and still carried little weight in 1953 when Ben Hogan, after winning the Masters, the U. S. Open and The Open Championship, could not compete in the PGA Championship ; the nearly concurrent PGA Championship and The Open Championship and the state of transatlantic travel made completing the Grand Slam impossible.

He had won the 1953 U. S. Open Championship, and would later represent the United States in the 1962, 1964, and 1968 Olympiads.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 1: The Fight Against Pabloism In The Fourth International ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-54-X, this volume contains documents from the period leading up to the 1953 split in the Fourth International and includes James P Cannon's Open Letter.

* The ' Open Letter ' to Trotskyists Throughout the World SWP resolution, 1953

Born in New York City, he won the U. S. Open Chess Championship in 1953, was awarded the International Master title by FIDE ( English: World Chess Federation ) in 1962, and played for or captained five U. S. Chess Olympiad teams between 1962 and 1972.

* 1953 ( 3 ) Houston Open, Palm Beach Round Robin, Carling Open

He also won the 1953 New York State Championship ( the first win by a non-New Yorker ), the 1956 Eastern States Open directed by Norman Tweed Whitaker in Washington, D. C., ahead of William Lombardy, Nicolas Rossolimo, Bobby Fischer ( at age 13 ) and Arthur Feuerstein, and the 1957 Champion of Champions tournament .< ref name =" The chess games of Hans Berliner ">

* 1953 UGA National Negro Open

* 1953 ( 9 ) Tampa Open, Betsy Rawls Open, Phoenix Weathervane ( tied with Patty Berg ), San Diego Open, Bakersfield Open, San Francisco Weathervane, Philadelphia Weathervane, 144 Hole Weathervane, Women's Western Open