Beria and the others were tried by a special session (" Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie ") of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal.

Zaisser, who tried to depose SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht after the June 1953 uprising was after this removed by Ulbricht and replaced by Ernst Wollweber.

In the 1950s the market town tried to incorporate a few surrounding areas from Espoo, but the application was rejected in 1953.

* Wilhelm Zaisser-He tried to depose Ulbricht in 1953

As King Mohammed Zahir Shah tried to reinforce his goal of pan-Afghan unity, the station's name was changed in 1953 to the Afghan Broadcasting System, and again in 1960 to Radio Afghanistan.

He first tried to form a government in June 1953, but was unable to gain the numbers in the Assembly.

The real Hitler tried to escape from Berlin, was captured by Soviet commandos after the long chase making most of the book, and was secretly kept under horrible and degrading conditions in the Kremlin basement until the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, when he was secretly executed.

In 1953, Reeves tried to convince her to commit suicide with him, but she fled and Reeves killed himself in their Paris hotel with an overdose of sleeping pills.

Muntz admitted his business lost $ 1, 457, 000 from April to August 1953, and although he tried to reorganize, Muntz TV filed bankruptcy and went out of business in 1959.

On April 17, 1953, Mantle hit one off Chuck Stobbs that was so impressive that someone tried to determine its flight with some precision, thus popularizing the term " Tape Measure Home Run.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

He was tried and shot in December 1953 though Khrushchev was later to claim that he shot Beria himself at the June meeting of the Presidium.

On January 15, 1953 Dertinger was arrested and in 1954 he was tried on a show trial for espionage, found guilty and sentenced to hard labor ( 15 years ).

He tried again in 1953 with Cynthia Abdy Westendarp, but they too were divorced in 1961 ; together they had a son, Henry, who served in the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police.

His trial began on 22 June 1953, in the same court in which Evans had been tried three years earlier.

From 1940 to 1950, the poetry of Aliger was characterised by a mix of optimistic semi-official verses (" Leninskie mountains ", 1953 ), and poems in which Aliger tried to analyse the situation in her country in a realistic way (" Your Victory ", 1944-1945 ).

Since 1953 seven airlines have tried scheduled passenger flights from Meacham ; none lasted more than a couple of years.

Marguerite Pitre was arrested on 14 June 1950, and tried separately, beginning 6 March 1951 ; following a guilty verdict, she was hanged on 9 January 1953, the thirteenth and last woman to be hanged in Canada.

In 1953, he tried out and was released by the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, then served as line coach with the Fort Belvoir army unit for two years beginning in 1954.

Literary agent Bernard Shir-Cliff convinced Ballantine Books to buy everything Clarke had, including Childhood's End, " Encounter in the Dawn " ( 1953 ), ( which Ballantine changed to Expedition to Earth ), and Prelude to Space ( 1951 ).

In 1953 – 54, Shankly became disillusioned when the board could not give him money to buy new players.

Additional property was donated in 1953 but could not be incorporated until the city could raise funds to buy the intervening ravine in 1973.

This financial tactic eventually enabled him to buy lakefront property at Lake Conway, Orange County, Florida, in 1953.

Nicky Collini and his fiancée Tacy buy ( despite Nicky's extreme reluctance and dire predictions ) a large trailer home ( a 36-foot 1953 New Moon, which cost $ 5, 345 at the time ), so that they can save money that would otherwise be spent on a house, and also be able to travel around the USA to civil engineering projects that Nicky is employed on.

They have to buy a more powerful car to tow the trailer, a 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible with a 125 HP flathead V8 engine, and the money spent starts to mount up.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

The first incarnation of the film was a 1953 script by Alex Gordon titled The Atomic Monster, but a lack of financing prevented any production.

Doris Day and Howard Keel, Calamity Jane ( film ) | Calamity Jane ( 1953 )

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Rank Organisation also produced some other notable comedy successes, such as Genevieve in 1953 ( see 1953 in film ).

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

She does not appear in the best-known film she directed, The Hitch-Hiker ( 1953 ), developed by her company, The Filmakers, with support and distribution by RKO.

* 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer ( d. 2005 )

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.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by, and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.