May 1953 in History

Events in History

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

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

May 15 Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
May 15 The Urey-Miller experiment using primordial soup to show how life of earth might have originated, written by Stanley Miller, is published in the journal "Science" [1]
May 18 American Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
May 19 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
May 21 French government of René Mayer resigns

May 22 US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill

May 24 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus

May 29 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire (to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II)

May 29 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

May 6 British Prime Minister (Labour: 1997-2007), born in Edinburgh, Scotland

May 7 Ian McKay, British soldier (VC recipient), born in Wortley, South Yorkshire, England (d. 1982)
May 7 Pat McInally, American National Football League player, born in Villa Park, California
May 8 Devi Shetty, Indian surgeon and health entrepreneur (Narayana Health), born in Dakshina Kannada, India
May 9 Scott McInnis, American politician who apologised for plagiarism (Rep-R-Colorado 1993-2005), born in Glenwood Springs
May 10 John Diamond, English journalist, born in London, England (d. 2001)
May 14 Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
May 16 David Maclean, British minister of state
May 17 Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
May 18 Helen Chadwick, English artist, born in Croydon, England (d. 1996)
May 19 Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
May 19 Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary
May 20 Robert Doyle, Australian politician
May 22 Doris Barnett, German politician, born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, West Germany
May 22 John Edward Stevens, American bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List), born in NYC, New York
May 23 Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (1993-94) and one of the 1st female political figures in Africa, born in Nyaruhengeri, Rwanda (d. 1994)
May 25 Eve Ensler, American playwright (The Vagina Monologues), born in NYC, New York
May 25 Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo), born in Kyoto, Japan
May 26 Michael Portillo, British politician

May 23 John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

May 4 Edward Shanks, British poet and critic, dies at 60
May 14 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japanese-American painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 59
May 19 Damaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and politician (122nd Prime Minister of Spain), dies at 79
May 28 Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)