February 1953

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The following events occurred in February 1953:

February 1, 1953 (Sunday)

• The surge of the North Sea flood continues from January 31.

February 2, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)

February 5, 1953 (Thursday)

• Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
• Died:Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)

February 9, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)

February 11, 1953 (Wednesday)

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
• The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the 'Doctors' plot'.

February 12, 1953 (Thursday)

• The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
• Died:Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)

February 13, 1953 (Friday)

• Transsexual Christine Jorgensen returns to New York after successful sex reassignment surgery in Denmark.

February 16, 1953 (Monday)

• The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.

February 19, 1953 (Thursday)

• Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
• Died:Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

February 21, 1953 (Saturday)

• Nitroform Products Company plant in Newark was destroyed by an explosion.^[1]

February 22, 1953 (Sunday)

• Born:Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer, actor (d. 2008)

February 23, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, British colonial administrator (b. 1874)

February 24, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Died:Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)

February 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Release, in France, of Jacques Tati's film Les Vacances de M. Hulot, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
• Died:Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

February 27, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)

February 28, 1953 (Saturday)

• James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
• Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.

References

1. Mahoney vs Nitroform Co., 114 A.2d 863 (NJ Appellate Div 1955).