1953 in the United Kingdom

1953 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1953 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Winston Churchill Conservative Party

Events

* 28 January - Derek Bentley is executed at Wandsworth Prison in London for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/newsid_3393000/3393807.stm|title="Derek Bentley hanged for murder", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 31 January - The car ferry, MV "Princess Victoria" sailing from Stranraer, Scotland to Larne, Northern Ireland, sinks in the Irish Sea killing 133 people onboard. Among the dead included Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major Maynard Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/31/newsid_2505000/2505913.stm|title="130 die in ferry disaster", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 31 January/1 February - The North Sea flood of 1953 kills hundreds of people on the east coast of Britain. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_3749000/3749771.stm|title="Violent storms claim hundreds of lives", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 5 February - The rationing of sweets, introduced during World War II, ends. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm|title="Sweet rationing ends in Britain", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 28 February - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 16 March - Josip Tito, the Communist leader of Yugoslavia visits the UK, the first Communist leader to do so. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_2808000/2808379.stm|title="Marshal Tito makes historic visit to London", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 24 March
** Queen Mary, the consort of the late King George V dies in her sleep at Marlborough House. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/24/newsid_2785000/2785265.stm|title="Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
** The 10 Rillington Place murders are uncovered.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 31 March - The funeral of Queen Mary takes place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4325000/4325305.stm|title="Queen Mary laid to rest in Windsor", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 13 April - Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale".cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml|title=The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 16 April - The Queen launches the Royal Yacht Britannia at the John Brown & Company shipbuilders on the Clyde. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2846000/2846801.stm|title="Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 24 April - Winston Churchill receives a knighthood from the Queen.
* 25 April - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their description of the double helix structure of DNA in the paper "Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids". [Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. (1953). [http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/index.html Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid] . "Nature" 171, 737-738.] [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_2932000/2932793.stm|title="Scientists describe 'secret of life'", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 2 June - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place at Westminster Abbey. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/2/newsid_2654000/2654501.stm|title="Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 25 June - John Christie, a 54-year-old London man, is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Ethel Christie. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/25/newsid_3721000/3721267.stm|title="Christie to hang for wife's murder", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 26 June - Eskdalemuir enters the UK Weather Records for the highest rainfall in a 30 minute period with 80mm. As of July 2006 this record remains.
* 15 July - John Christie is hanged at Pentonville Prison.
* 19 August - the England cricket team defeat Australia to win The Ashes for the first time in 19 years.
* 26 September - End of post-War sugar rationing.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 406-407|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 6 October - Government sends troops to the colony of British Guiana blaming communists for causing unrest. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/6/newsid_3168000/3168299.stm|title="Britain sends troops to Guiana", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 11 November - Long running current affairs television series "Panorama" first airs.
* 17 November - An Italian steamer collides with a French motor vessel in the English Channel, killing 20 people. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/17/newsid_3190000/3190340.stm|title="Twenty die in Channel collision", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 21 November - The Piltdown Man, which was discovered in 1912 and thought to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, exposed as a hoax.
* 26 November - The House of Lords votes in favour of the government's proposals for commercial television. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/26/newsid_4032000/4032711.stm|title="1953: Lords vote for commercial television", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-10]
* 10 December
** Winston Churchill wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953|accessdate=2008-01-10]
** Hans Adolf Krebs wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1953/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953|accessdate=2008-01-10]

Undated

* Michael Ventris deciphers the Minoan language Linear B. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]

Publications

* Agatha Christie's novels "After the Funeral" (Hercule Poirot) and "A Pocket Full of Rye" (Miss Marple).
* Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, "Casino Royale".
* L. P. Hartley's novel "The Go-Between".
* C. S. Lewis' novel "The Silver Chair".
* Evelyn Waugh's novel "Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future".
* John Wyndham's novel "The Kraken Wakes".

Births

* 17 February - Norman Pace, British actor and comedian
* 11 April - Andrew Wiles, mathematician known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem
* 13 April - Stephen Byers, politician
* 20 April - Sebastian Faulks, English novelist
* 6 May - Tony Blair, Prime Minister
* 19 May - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
* 24 May - Alfred Molina, English actor
* 26 May - Michael Portillo, English politician
* 15 July - John Yorke Denham, politician
* 21 July - David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (died 2007)
* 8 August - Nigel Mansell, racing driver
* 18 August - Patrick Cowdell, English boxer
* 21 October - Peter Mandelson, politician
* 27 October - Peter Firth, British actor
* 7 November - Lucinda Green, equestrian
* 16 November - Griff Rhys Jones, comedian, actor and writer
* 26 November - Hilary Benn, politician
* 28 November - Alistair Darling, politician
* 6 December - Geoff Hoon, politician
* Christopher Fowler, thriller writer

Deaths

* 28 January - Derek Bentley, murderer (born 1933) (hanged)
* 29 January - Norman MacEwen, RAF commander
* 24 March - Queen Mary, consort of King George V, and grandmother of the Queen (born 1867)
* 6 April - Idris Davies, poet
* 1 June - Alex James, footballer (born 1901)
* 8 October - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (born 1912)
* 27 October - Thomas Wass, cricketer (born 1873)
* 9 November - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)

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