In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".

Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.

The discovery was made on 28 February 1953 ; the first Watson / Crick paper appeared in Nature on 25 April 1953.

John van Melle ( 11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953 ) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author.

K. A. Wilde submitted a paper to Science on December 15, 1952, before Miller submitted his paper to the same journal on February 14, 1953.

Mary Bergman died February 14, 1953, aboard a National Airlines DC-6 which went down in the Gulf of Mexico during a thunderstorm on a flight from Tampa to New Orleans.

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

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The Eagle in Cambridge is where Francis Crick interrupted patrons ' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had " discovered the secret of life " after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA.

The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

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 %.

Due to the efforts of Merrill Swan, W6AEE, of the " The RTTY Society of Southern California " publisher of RTTY and Wayne Green, W2NSD, of CQ Magazine, Amateur Radio operators successfully petitioned the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to amend Part 12 of the Regulations, which was effective on February 20, 1953.

On February 16, 1953, Williams was part of a 35-plane air raid against a tank and infantry training school just south of Pyongyang, North Korea.

* February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader ( suicide ) ( b. 1953 )

* February 4 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist ( d. 1953 )

* February 4 – Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football ( d. 1953 )

* February 8 – Wojciech Trąmpczyński, Polish lawyer and politician ( d. 1953 )

* January 31 – February 1 – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1, 836 people in the southwestern Netherlands ( especially Zeeland ), 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry in the Irish Sea.

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Istanbul, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue.

* February 27, 1953 BC: A very close alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in which these planets are together in a span of 4. 3 degrees.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

After many months of negotiation, agreement was reached between Hydro Quebec and Rediffusion on February 28, 1950 for an initial 5 year period.

A United Nations ( UN ) commission was dispatched to the former colony in February 1950 in the absence of Allied agreement and in the face of Eritrean demands for self-determination.

Foreign Minister Tavola expressed grave concern on 7 February 2006 about a proposed regional trade agreement ( RTA ) between Australia and China, saying that Fiji's exports to Australia would be unable to compete with Chinese products.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.

In February 2005, a bilateral trade agreement ( BTA ) between the two countries entered into force.

On February 14, 2008, Thoma Cressey Bravo and then, Macrovision Corporation announced that an affiliate of TCB had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Macrovision's Software Business Unit in a cash transaction valued at approximately $ 200 million.

On February 13, 2007, North Korea signed an agreement with South Korea, the United States, Russia, China, and Japan, in which North Korea will shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for economic and energy assistance.

Since then, a very similar agreement was reached on February 13, 2007, that includes normalizing US-North Korean and Japanese-North Korean diplomatic ties on the condition that North Korea freeze its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

After the Second World War the area was annexed by Poland, this came about as a direct result of the Allied Powers agreement on the realignment of states in Eastern Europe reached at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

According to Barbour, Comyn betrayed his agreement with Bruce to King Edward I, and when Bruce arranged a meeting for 10 February 1306 with Comyn in the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery in Dumfries and accused him of treachery, they came to blows.

On October 3, 2001, the NFL announced its intentions to hold the game on February 3, even though no agreement had been reached with NADA.

This agreement permitted the NFL to move the game back to February 3, and allowed for a full standard playoff tournament.

American Motors ( AMC ) was so convinced "... that the rotary engine will play an important role as a powerplant for cars and trucks of the future ...", according to Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., that the smallest U. S. automaker signed an agreement in February 1973, after a year's negotiations, to build Wankels for both passenger cars and Jeeps, as well as the right to sell any rotary engines it produces to other companies.

* February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement.

The New Delhi Conference, held in February and March 1968, was a forum that allowed developing countries to reach agreement on basic principles of their development policies.

On 8 February, an agreement was concluded with the empress Anna of Savoy, whereby he and John V Palaiologos would rule jointly.

* On February 7, 2007 an agreement was signed for the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway.

In February 1912 a secret treaty was signed between Bulgaria and Serbia and in May 1912 a similar agreement was sealed with Greece.

In February, 1772, the agreement of partition was signed in Vienna.

During its run, in February 1883, Carte signed a five-year partnership agreement with Gilbert and Sullivan, obliging them to create new operas for him upon six months ' notice.

Consequently, when the talks failed to achieve an agreement by the original deadline of 19 February, they were extended by another month.

* February 21 – Greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, € 130-billion Greek bailout.