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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan creates his first ballet, Somnambulism, to music by Stan Kenton | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March, a novel about the experiences of a young Chicago Jew | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Joseph Stalin dies, four days after suffering a stroke | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven | |
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| 1953 |
| | | English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Black American Malcolm Little, who has joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, adopts the surname X to symbolize his rejection of his slave name | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta, charged with having organized the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, is sentenced to seven years in prison | |
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