In 1953 the four-engined Vickers Viscount turboprop was chosen to replace the Vikings and an order for three was placed in July.

On 18 April 1953, BEA commenced using its newly delivered Vickers Viscount 701 on their scheduled service from London to Rome and Athens.

Linac-based radiation therapy for cancer therapy began with treatment of the first patient in 1953 in London at Hammersmith Hospital, with an 8 megavolt machine built by Metropolitan Vickers, as the first dedicated medical linac.

This provided the impetus for Vickers to begin developing the four-engined Vanguard high-capacity turboprop in 1953.

BEA Vickers Viscount variants # Viscount 700 | Viscount 701 G-ALWE RMA Discovery in bare metal finish livery incorporating a burgundy cheatline, a white roof and fin at Manchester in 1953.

* On 5 January 1953, Vickers Viking G-AJDL crashed on approach to Belfast Nutts Corner Airport due to an error of judgement by the pilot.

* Nutts Corner was the site of the worst air disaster in Northern Ireland when on 5 January 1953 a British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Viking crashed after striking landing lights and then a building at the airfield, killing 27 people out of 35 on board.

LINAC based radiation therapy for cancer therapy began with treatment of the first patient in 1953 in London at Hammersmith Hospital, with an 8 megavolt machine built by Metropolitan Vickers, as the first medical LINAC.

He was a crew member in the New Zealand Air Race in 1953, in a BEA Vickers Viscount.

To many a Frenchman -- they came 95 years ago, colonized, and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 -- the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti.

Routine immunization with BCG was withdrawn in 2005 because of falling cost-effectiveness: whereas in 1953, 94 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB, by 1988, the annual incidence of TB in the UK had fallen so much, 12, 000 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in July 1953 after the death of Stalin, who had been insisting that the North Koreans continue fighting.

His political career in the federal cabinet was unique in that he had served four ministerial posts in the years between 1953 and 1969.

By Stalin's death in 1953, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ, which was responsible to the Politburo, and not the other way around.

Khrushchev and Malenkov, who had begun receiving information which stated that the MVD bad begun spying on party officials, started to act in the spring of 1953.

In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion.

* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

In 1953 it was decided that Germany was to repay $ 1. 1 billion of the aid it had received.

In 1953 when the Agrarian Reform was put into practice, one of the largest U. S. companies, the United Fruit Company, had lost 250, 000 out of 350, 000 manzanas.

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

In 1949 in Congress, the Communist party only had less than forty members, however, by 1953 it went up to nearly four thousand.

In 1953, FIDE abolished the old regulations, although a provision was maintained that allowed older masters who had been overlooked to be awarded titles.

He was replaced because he failed to solve growing national crises, such as the worsening economy in 1969 – 70, the fear of another popular uprising as had occurred in 1953, and the disgruntlement between Moscow and Berlin caused by Ulbricht's détente policies toward the West.

Bernard de Voto, in his 1953 Westward the Course of Empire, observed: " The Indians had an experience they were never to repeat: they were sorry to see these white men leave.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

Shearer made his film debut in the 1953 film Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, in which he only had a small part.

He scored more than 100 runs in six of his ten seasons ( averaging more than 110 runs from 1947 to 1953 ), had a. 311 career batting average, a. 409 career on-base percentage, a. 474 slugging percentage, and substantially more walks than strikeouts ( 740 to 291 ).

Nehru ordered the arrest of the Kashmiri politician Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, whom he had previously supported but now suspected of harbouring separatist ambitions ; Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad replaced him.

Northern Rhodesia had decided earlier in 1953 ( before the Federation was founded ) to build a dam within its territory, on the Kafue River, a major tributary of the Zambezi.

Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One ( 1953 ) opposite Marlon Brando ( Marvin's gang in the film was called " The Beetles "), followed by Seminole ( 1953 ) and Gun Fury ( 1953 ).

In 1953, Kaye started his own production company, Dena Pictures, named for his daughter.

According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.

This started a process that led to the Bundestag approving a pact between Israel and Germany in 1953 outlining the reparations Germany would pay to Israel.

In 1953 Maule started design work, and started aircraft production with the " Bee-Dee " M-4 in 1957.

Clokey started his adventures in clay with a 1953 freeform clay short film called Gumbasia ( 1953 ) which shortly thereafter propelled him into his more structured Gumby TV series.

However, the end of the Korean War in 1953 started an economic boom, and then car buyers immediately began demanding more powerful engines.

The frieze was started in 1878 and was not completed until 1953.

Under the long-term leadership of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the first test reactor plant, a prototype referred to as S1W, started up in USA in 1953 at the Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho.

In 1950 he started exchanging letters with Jerzy Giedroyc and from 1951 he started having works published in the Parisian journal Culture, where, in 1953, fragments of Dziennik ( Diaries ) appeared.

** Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, started as a civil war between North Korea and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ).

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953 .< ref > Church Committee ; p. 390 " MKUltra was approved by the DCI < nowiki > of Central Intelligence on April 13, 1953 "</ ref > Its remit was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques on U. S. prisoners of war in Korea.

At the collegiate level, academic quiz bowl competitions enjoyed broad exposure in the United States media via College Bowl, which started on radio in 1953 and aired on national television from 1959 to 1970.

In February 1952, Clarke started working on the novelization of " Guardian Angel ", completing a first draft of the novel Childhood's End in December ; a final revision occurred in January 1953.

It started in 1953 with Pablo Castillo García-Negrete, an architect who began to donate the first cash prizes of only some thousands of pesetas.

Brazilian assembly of the Beetle, where it is called " Fusca ", started in 1953, with parts imported from Germany.

The export history of URALs started in 1953, at first mainly to developing countries.

In May 1953, pre-production started on The Tell-Tale Heart, which originally was intended to be a 3-D film.

This rig was notable for being the same rig that started the 3-D craze of 1953 with Bwana Devil and House of Wax.

Public use of the word " Aqualung ", and public interest in Aqualungs and scuba diving, were started around 1953 in English-speaking counties by a National Geographical Society Magazine article about Cousteau's underwater archaeological expedition to Grand Congloué.