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.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

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.

In 1953, a Baltimore based group led by Carroll Rosenbloom won the rights to a new Baltimore National Football League franchise.

MK won its first seat at local level on the Redruth-Camborne Urban Council in 1953.

The relocated Brewers were loaded with talent, and the 1953 T-Sox won the second Association pennant in their history and drew over 343, 000 fans, a 244 % increase compared to 1951.

Inspired by Kubala, Barça won the title in 1952 and 1953.

England won the first post-war competition in 1947, and followed up with victories in 1948, 1950, 1953 – 1958 and 1961.

Gardner was nominated for an Academy Award for Mogambo ( 1953 ); the award was won by Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday.

Together with his collaborator Willy Ley, de Camp won the 1953 International Fantasy Award for nonfiction for their Lands Beyond, their study of geographical myths.

Photographer William M. Gallagher of the Flint Journal won the 1953 Pulitzer prize on the strength of the image.

However, Niven won a Golden Globe Award for his work in The Moon Is Blue ( 1953 ), produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

* 1953: The War of the Worlds-No nominees named ( War of the Worlds was the sole nominee and won the award outright.

Spassky made his international debut in 1953, aged sixteen, in Bucharest, Romania, finishing equal fourth with Laszlo Szabo on 12 / 19, an event won by his trainer, Alexander Tolush.

During the 1952 – 1953 television season, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, host of Life Is Worth Living, won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Personality.

These include Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar ( 1946 ), which won the Grand Prize at the 1st Cannes Film Festival, and Bimal Roy's Two Acres of Land ( 1953 ), which won the International Prize at the 7th Cannes Film Festival.

In 1953, Remigino won both ICAAAA sprint championships.

Early Mist secured O ' Brien's first victory in 1953 ; Royal Tan won in 1954, and Quare Times completed the Irish trainer's hat-trick in 1955.

The film won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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.

Back in France he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's La Ronde ( 1950 ), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Lola Montès ( 1955 ) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as Le Plaisir and The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career.

Merman and Berlin reunited for Call Me Madam in 1950, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and she went on to star in the 1953 screen adaptation as well, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

* 1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.

In September 1953, the Central Committee bestowed Khrushchev with the title of First Secretary, which made his seniority in the Central Committee official.

Early in 1953, the French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists, supplied from China, who were fighting the First Indochina War.

First published in 1953 by Ballantine Books, Fahrenheit 451 is twice as long as " The Fireman ".

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

Maldives remained a British crown protectorate until 1953 when the sultanate was suspended and the First Republic was declared under the short-lived presidency of Muhammad Amin Didi.

* 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came in one of the latter, Ford Theatre, during a 1953 episode titled " First Born ".

First, the particles were classified by charge and isospin by Eugene Wigner and Werner Heisenberg ; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and Kazuhiko Nishijima.

Cover of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books No. 41, First Edition, 1953.

Later on, in 1953 and 1958, the happy face was used in promotional campaigns for motion pictures Lili and Gigi, respectively. First use of happy face in a campaign for the film Lili in 1953.

* 1953 – First commercial polyester fiber production by DuPont.

In 1950, as the SED restructured itself into a more orthodox Soviet-style Communist party, he became General Secretary of the SED Central Committee ; this position was renamed First Secretary in 1953.

The office was known as " First Secretary " from 1953 to 1976.

Alec Tiranti, Ltd. London: 1953 First Edition

In the 20th century, the race was run on the first Wednesday in June from 1900 until 1995 apart from: 1915 to 1918, ( during the First World War ) when it was on a Tuesday ; during the Second World War, from 1942 until 1945 the race was run on a Saturday as it was in the post war years of 1947 to 1950 and again in 1953.

After a four month dating relationship, on 2 August 1975 Stonehill married Sarah Mae Finch ( born 18 February 1953 in Los Angeles, California ), a school teacher, the sister-in-law of Stephen J. Cannell, at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California, In a 1978 interview Stonehill explained how he met Sarah Finch.

Bokassa saw some combat during the First Indochina War before his tour of duty ended in March 1953.

* 1953: First flight to Mexico City on a Cubana Lockheed L-1049G Constellation.

The Giles Mandeville House ( also built in 1788 ), a field and quarry-stone structure located at 515 Newark-Pompton Turnpike, which is believed to have served as a waypoint for many runaway slaves, still stands today in use as the Manse of the adjacent First Reformed Church since 1953.

Simultaneously, however, another " Headquarters, First Canadian Infantry Division " was authorized as part of the Canadian Army Active Force ( the Regular forces of the Canadian military ), in October 1953.

Redgrave became the First President of the English Speaking Board in 1953, and President of the Questors Theatre, Ealing in 1958.

* 1953: First Symphony (" Proti Simfonia ")