The Year 1953
MAJOR EVENTS:

Nikita Khrushchev wins power struggle in Soviet Union after the death of Josef Stalin

Josef Broz Tito elected president of Yugoslavia

Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed

Korean armistice signed

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb

BUSINESS & ECONOMY:

President Eisenhower ends all wage, salary and price controls

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager sets speed record in X-1 rocket plane

An expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary is the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest

James Watson and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA

Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

SPORTS:

World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn, 4-2 (fifth consecutive win)

St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore to become the Orioles

Boston Braves move to Milwaukee

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:

Movies: Roman Holiday, From Here to Eternity, The Robe (first major motion picture filmed in wide-screen CinemaScope)

Songs: Doggie in the Window, I Believe, Stranger in Paradise, I Love Paris

TV Shows: Twenty Questions, Red Skelton Show, GE Theatre, Make Room for Daddy

Books: Casino Royale, Ian Fleming; Battle Cry, Leon Uris

EVERYDAY LIFE:

TV Guide debuts; on the cover of the first issue are Lucille Ball and her newborn son, Desi Arnaz IV