1953

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Years :	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

Contents 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 8 - Bruce Sutter, baseball relief pitcher
• January 10 - Pat Benatar, singer
• January 10 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer
• January 19 - Desi Arnaz Jr., actor
• January 21 - Paul Allen, 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 - Stephen D. Thorne, astronaut
• February 17 - Norman Pace, actor, comic
• February 21 - William Petersen, actor
• February 25 - José María Aznar, Spanish politician
• Victor Davis Hanson
• July 11- Leon Spinks, boxer

[edit] Deaths

• March 5 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
• November 9-Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet

[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