1953

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Years :	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
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Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Hit songs
5 Films released
6 New books

[edit] Events

May 29 - The first humans reach the top of Mount Everest.
July 27 - Korean War ends

[edit] Births

January 21 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
January 22 - Jim Jarmusch, director
January 26 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
February 7 - Lige Curry, musician (P Funk)
February 7 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (died 1998)
February 8 - Mary Steenburgen, actress
February 11 - Philip Anglim, actor
February 11 - Alan Rubin, music figure
February 11 - Jeb Bush, American politician
February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic
February 21 - William Petersen, actor
March 16 - Richard Stallman, Computer programmer and political activist
March 26 - Lincoln Chafee, American politician
May 6 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 29 - Danny Elfman, American musician
July 11- Leon Spinks, boxer
July 31 - James Read, American actor
August 29 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian musician
November 14 - Dominique de Villepin, Premeir of France

Unknown date:
- Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
- Jos Oehlen, Dutch sculptor

[edit] Deaths

January 1 - Hank Williams, American musician
January 28 - James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b.1878)
March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891}
November 9 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1914)

[edit] Hit songs

"Allez-Vous-En" - Kay Starr
"Answer Me, O Lord" - Frankie Laine
"Bridge Of Sighs" - Georgia Gibbs
"Bye Bye Blues" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Changing Partners" - Patti Page
"Crying in the Chapel - Orioles
"The Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page
"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" - Perry Como
"Dragnet" - Ray Anthony
"Eh Cumpari" - Julius LaRosa
"Even Now" - Eddie Fisher
"Floatin' Down To Cotton Town" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
"The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart" - The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
"Granada" - Frankie Laine
"Have You Heard" - Joni James
"Hey Joe!" - Frankie Laine
"Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" - Leslie Caron & Mel Ferrer
"Home Lovin' Man" - Georgia Gibbs
"I Believe" - Frankie Laine
"I'm Walking Behind You" - Eddie Fisher
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" - The Four Lads
"The Jones Boy" - The Mills Brothers
"The Kid's Last Fight" - Frankie Laine
"Make Her Mine" - Nat King Cole
"Make Love To Me" - Jo Stafford
"No Other Love" - Perry Como
"Oh! My Pa-Pa" - Eddie Fisher
"Pretend" - Nat King Cole
"Rags To Riches" - Tony Bennett
"Ricochet (Rick O'Shay)" - Teresa Brewer
"Same Old Saturday Night" - Frank Sinatra
"Secret Love" - Doris Day
"Seven Lonely Days" - Georgia Gibbs
"Side By Side" - Kay Starr
"The Song from Moulin Rouge" - Percy Faith (Felicia Sanders vocal)
"Stranger in Paradise" - Tony Bennett
"Tell Me A Story" - Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd
"That's Amore" - Dean Martin
"Three Coins In The Fountain" - Frank Sinatra
"The Typewriter" - Leroy Anderson & His Orchestra
"Vaya Con Dios" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Wishing Ring" - Joni James
"Young At Heart" - Frank Sinatra
"Your Cheatin' Heart" - Frankie Laine

[edit] Films released

Peter Pan
From Here to Eternity
The Wild One
All My Babies
The War of the Worlds

[edit] New books

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
Battle Cry - Leon Uris
Beyond This Place - A.J. Cronin
The Bridges at Toko-Ri - James A. Michener
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
The Cornerstone - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
Désirée - Annemarie Selinko
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Heartsnatcher - Boris Vian
The High and the Mighty - Ernest K. Gann
A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
Lord Vanity - Samuel Shellabarger
Madame de Pompadour - Nancy Mitford
Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks
The Night of the Hunter - Davis Grubb
The Present and the Past - Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis
The Sojourner - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Time and Time Again - James Hilton
The Unconquered - Ben Ames Williams
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
The Universe Maker - A. E. van Vogt

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