June 1953

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The following events occurred in June 1953:

June 1, 1953 (Monday)

• Uprising in Plzeň: Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
• Died:Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)

June 2, 1953 (Tuesday)

• Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.

June 3, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Died:Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (d. 1987)

June 5, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:
  • William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876)
  • Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
  • Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887)

June 7, 1953 (Sunday)

• Italian general election: the Christian Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses.

June 8, 1953 (Monday)

• Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan (the last to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado).
• Austria and the Soviet Union form diplomatic relations.
• Ivo Sanader, the "Čaća", was born.

June 9, 1953 (Tuesday)

• CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in a MKUltra subproject.
• Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
• Died:Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884)

June 13, 1953 (Saturday)

• Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.

June 15, 1953 (Monday)

• Died:Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877)

June 16, 1953 (Tuesday)

• The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia form diplomatic relations.

June 17, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Workers Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.

June 18, 1953 (Thursday)

• Egypt declares itself a republic.
• Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history at this time and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100.
• Died:René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894)

June 19, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:
  • Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878)
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day)
  • Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896)

June 20, 1953 (Saturday)

• Born:Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)

June 21, 1953 (Sunday)

• Born:Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)

June 22, 1953 (Monday)

• Born:Cyndi Lauper, American singer, songwriter, and actress

June 26, 1953 (Friday)

• Died:Lavrentiy Beria, KGB chief (b. 1899)

June 30, 1953 (Tuesday)

• The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.
• First roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne.
• Died:Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874)