April 1953
The following events occurred in April 1953:
April 7, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary-General.
April 8, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising.
April 10, 1953 (Friday)
- The Melbourne Knights is founded as Croatia SC in Melbourne.
April 13, 1953 (Monday)
- Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the United Kingdom.
- The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.
April 16, 1953 (Thursday)
- President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech to the National Association of Newspaper Editors[1]
- A four-story building in Chicago belonging to the Habar Corporation catches fire, killing 35 employees.
April 17, 1953 (Friday)
- Mickey Mantle hits a 565-foot (172 m) home run at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in baseball history by many historians.
April 20, 1953 (Monday)
- Frank Sinatra and the arranger Nelson Riddle began their first recording sessions together at Capitol Records, which would result in some of the defining recordings of Sinatra's career.
April 25, 1953 (Saturday)
- Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA[2]
April 27, 1953 (Monday)
- Died:Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; former wife of John MacBride (b. 1866)
April 28, 1953 (Tuesday)
April 29, 1953 (Wednesday)
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