November 1953
The following events occurred in November 1953:
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November 1, 1953 (Sunday)
- Born: Darrell Issa, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, in Cleveland, Ohio
November 8, 1953 (Sunday)
November 10, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Born: Guitarist Kenneth J Kettner in McHenry Illinois.
November 13, 1953 (Friday)
- Born: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, current President of México, in Tepetitán
November 18, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Born: Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian, in St Louis, Missouri
November 20, 1953 (Friday)
- The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 2.
- Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax.[1][2]
- Born: Faizul Suleiman Wahab to Abdul and Raheisan Wahab, in Berbice, British Guiana.
November 21, 1953 (Saturday)
- Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
November 22, 1953 (Sunday)
- Operation Castor: French paratroopers take Điện Biên Phủ.
November 25, 1953 (Wednesday)
- "Match of the Century": England loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
November 30, 1953 (Monday)
- Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London, by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
References
- Weiner, J. S.; Oakley, K. P.; Le Gros Clark, W. E. (1953-11-20). "The Solution of the Piltdown Problem". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series. 2 (3): 141–6.
- "Piltdown Man forgery". The Times. London. 1953-11-21. p. 6.
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