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| 1953 |
| | | James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US microbiologist Jonas Salk announces the discovery of an effective vaccine against polio | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Alfred Charles Kinsey completes his study of human sexuality with the publication of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female | |
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| 1953 |
| | | New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stand together on the top of Everest | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US author James Baldwin publishes his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, set in Harlem | |
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| 1953 |
| | | English composer William Walton writes Orb and Sceptre for the coronation of Elizabeth II | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The new queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, is crowned like all her predecessors since 1066 in Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | William Wyler directs Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a beguiling comedy about a princess's romance in Rome | |
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