September 1953
The following events occurred in September 1953:
September 4, 1953 (Friday)
- The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
September 5, 1953 (Saturday)
- The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept China as a member.
September 7, 1953 (Monday)
- Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
September 12, 1953 (Saturday)
- U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
September 25, 1953 (Friday)
- A hurricane in South-East Asia kills over 1,000 people.
- The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.
September 26, 1953 (Saturday)
- Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.
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