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| 1953 |
| | | Anglican vicar Chad Varah, using the crypt of a London church, sets up the first branch of what becomes the Samaritans | |
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| 1953 |
| | | French actor Jacques Tati directs and stars in the zany comedy Mr Hulot's Holiday | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Swedish economist Dag Hammarskjöld becomes secretary-general of the United Nations | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US golfer Ben Hogan wins the US Open, the US Masters and the British Open in a single year | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Within the year Marilyn Monroe stars in Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the contemporary paranoia of McCarthyism | |
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| 1953 |
| | | An armistice ends the Korean War, leaving several million dead and a country divided either side of a military zone along the 38th parallel | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh is removed from office in an armed coup sponsored by the CIA and Britain's MI6 | |
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