May 1953
Month of 1953
Edmund Hillary (left) and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 The following events occurred in May 1953 :
BOAC Flight 783 broke up in midair and crashed near Calcutta , India , killing all 43 people aboard.[ 5] Hussein was crowned King of Jordan . On the same day, Faisal II , Hussein's cousin, assumed his constitutional powers as King of Iraq .[ 6] The FA Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. It would become known as the "Matthews Final" as a result of Blackpool winger Stanley Matthews scoring a hat-trick to enable his team to defeat Bolton Wanderers .[ 7]
Dark Star , ridden by Henry Moreno , won the 1953 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky , United States.[ 8] [ 9] Born:
Died: Wallace Bryant , 89, American Olympic archer and portraitist[ 12] Born:
Died: Anna Rüling , 72, German journalist, "the first known lesbian activist"[ 41] Images from Aldrin's gun camera of the MiG pilot bailing out Future U.S. astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. , who would participate in the first crewed Moon landing in 1969, scored his first confirmed kill as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War . Flying a North American F-86 Sabre , Aldrin shot down a MiG-15 about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the Yalu River . The MiG pilot ejected from the aircraft.[ 59]
Over 7,000 brewery workers in Milwaukee , United States, performed a walkout , marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike .[ 60]
The passenger liners SS Arcadia [ 61] SS Orsova were launched, in Clydebank , Scotland, and Barrow-in-Furness , England, respectively.[ 62]
Born:
Died: Yasuo Kuniyoshi , 63, Japanese-American painter and photographer, of cancer [ 67] Born:
Died: Angel Figueroa , 23, Puerto Rican Olympic boxer, was killed in action at the Punchbowl while fighting in the Korean War.[ 92] Upshot-Knothole Grable test A second round of voting took place in the 1953 Rajya Sabha elections in India, electing members to the upper chamber.[ 112]
Born:
Kay Hagan (born Janet Kay Ruthven), American lawyer, banking executive and politician; in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 2019 , complications of Powassan virus [ 113] Don McAllister , English footballer and manager; in Radcliffe, Lancashire , England[ 114] Michael Portillo , English politician, journalist and broadcaster; in Bushey , Hertfordshire [ 115]
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