June 1953

June 1, 1953 (Monday)

• Uprising in Plzeň: Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
• Died:Alex James, Scottish football player

  June 2, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.

  June 3, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Born:Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor

  June 4, 1953 (Thursday)

June 5, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:
• *William Farnum, American actor
• *Bill Tilden, American tennis champion
• *Roland Young, English actor

  June 6, 1953 (Saturday)

June 7, 1953 (Sunday)

• Italian general election: the Christian Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses.

  June 8, 1953 (Monday)

• Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan.
• Austria and the Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
• Ivo Sanader, the "Čaća", was born.

  June 9, 1953 (Tuesday)

• CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKUltra subproject.
• Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
• Died:Godfrey Tearle, American actor

  June 10, 1953 (Wednesday)

June 11, 1953 (Thursday)

June 12, 1953 (Friday)

June 13, 1953 (Saturday)

• Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.

  June 14, 1953 (Sunday)

June 15, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Henry Scattergood, American cricketer

  June 16, 1953 (Tuesday)

• The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.

  June 17, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Workers Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.

  June 18, 1953 (Thursday)

• Egypt declares itself a republic.
• Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history at this time and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100.
• Died:René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace

  June 19, 1953 (Friday)

• Baton Rouge bus boycott begins.
• Died:
• *Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer
• *Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies
• *Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer

  June 20, 1953 (Saturday)

• Born:Ulrich Mühe, German actor

  June 21, 1953 (Sunday)

• Born:Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan

  June 22, 1953 (Monday)

• Born:Cyndi Lauper, American singer, songwriter, and actress

  June 23, 1953 (Tuesday)

June 24, 1953 (Wednesday)

June 25, 1953 (Thursday)

• Event: The Sad Story of Henry Broadcast on BBC Children's Hour - Point's not set right. Henry derailed and a hand was shown putting Henry back on the rails. Project cancelled. Poem made after derailment:

June 26, 1953 (Friday)

• Deposed:Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet internal affairs minister and former NKVD leader

  June 27, 1953 (Saturday)

June 28, 1953 (Sunday)

June 29, 1953 (Monday)

June 30, 1953 (Tuesday)

• The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.
• First roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne.
• Died:Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books