Historical Events in May 1953

May 4 Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for "The Old Man & The Sea"

May 6 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0
May 7 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
May 7 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
May 8 WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 10 KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
May 11 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)

May 11 Winston Churchill criticizes US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory

May 13 NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple

May 15 Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago

May 15 Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
May 16 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
May 17 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
May 18 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochran, USA)
May 19 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
May 21 French government of Mayer resigns

May 22 US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill

May 29 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
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May 29 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire (to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II)
May 30 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
May 30 Indianapolis 500: Bill Vukovich wins in 3:53:01.668 (207.187 km/h)

May 30 French Men's Tennis Championships: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2

May 30 52nd Women's French Championships: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2, 6-4)
May 31 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
May 31 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast