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| 1st Playboy Magazine Monroe, Marilyn |  |
| 1st Dec The first Playboy magazine is published, Marilyn Monroe is on the cover
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| Accession Hussein I |  |
| 2nd May Formal accession to the throne
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| Admiral Gorshkov, Sergey Georgyvich |  |
| Appointed Admiral
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| Armistice Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| 27th July An armistice is agreed, sth Korea's independence is secured
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| Arrest Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro |  |
| Castro is tried in the fall of 1953 & sentenced up to 15 yrs in prison
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| Arrest Dertinger, Georg |  |
| Arrested as a spy, held until 1954
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| Arrest Mussadeq, Mohammed |  |
| Tehran Arrested for causing civil disorder after his dismissal
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| Arrest Wyszynski, Stefan |  |
| Arrested for opposition to Stalin, 1953-56
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| Arrest Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| 26th June Arrested by Khruschev for allegedly planning a Coup
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| 26th June Beria is arrested for being an agent
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| Arrest Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| 26th June Moscow Has Beria arrested for allegedly staging a Coup
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| Arrest Pak, Hon Yong |  |
| Arrested for planning a Coup in North Korea & sentenced to death
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| Assassination Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Jan Moscow 9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
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| Atoms For Peace Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| 8th Dec President Dwight D Eisenhower envisioned the creation of this international body to control and develop the use of atomic energy, in his "Atoms for Peace" speech before the UN General Assembly
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| Bharatiya Janata Party Mookerjee, Syama Prasad |  |
| Fortunes of the young Bharatiya Janata Party flounder when Mookherjee dies in Kashmir in jail during a protest
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| Birth Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton |  |
| 6th May Edinburgh Birth of Anthony Blair, son of a barrister & university lecturer
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| Birth Bhutto, Benazir |  |
| 21st June The eldest of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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| Broadcast MacMillan, Maurice Harold | |
| May London Selected to give the first party political broadcast on television
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| Budget Butler, Richard Austen | |
| 19th April London Due to a trade surplus 6d is taken off the standard rate of income tax
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| 19th April London Reduces the standard rate of tax to 9 shillings in the pound
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| Bundestag Scheel, Walter | |
| Appointed Member of the Bundestag
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| Bundestag Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Bonn Appointed Member of the Bundestag, Federal Parliament
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| Burial Stalin, Joseph | |
| 9th Mar Moscow Funeral of Joseph Stalin
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| Burial Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal |  |
| Ankara Transferred to a newly completed mausoleum on a hill overlooking Ankara
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| Capital Hussein I | |
| 27th July Jerusalem Hussein I declares East Jerusalem the alternative capital of Hashemite Jordan
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| Cardinal Wyszynski, Stefan | |
| Appointed Cardinal
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| Chairman BCB Mazurov, Kirill Trofimovich | |
| Belorussia Appointed Chairman of the Belorussian Council of Ministers
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| Chairman Cabinet Butler, Richard Austen | |
| 23rd June Appointed Chairman of the Cabinet, due to the ill health of Churchill & Eden
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| Chairman Council of Ministers Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abassovich | |
| June Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan
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| Chairman Council of Ministers Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| 5th Mar Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers
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| Chairman JCS Radford, Arthur | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff
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| Chairman Labour Party Greenwood, Arthur | |
| London Appointed Chairman of the Labour Party
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| Chairman Presidium Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Head of State
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| Chairman Secretary General Kuanda, Kenneth David |  |
| Appointed Secretary General of the ANC, under the presidency of Harry Nkumbula
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| Chancellor Raab, Julius |  |
| 2nd April Vienna Appointed Chancellor of Austria
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| Chancellor Adenauer, Konrad | |
| 20th Oct Bonn Appointed Chancellor
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| Chief Justice Warren, Earl | |
| Washington Appointed Chief Justice of the USASupreme Court
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| Commander Navarre, Henri |  |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in Indochina
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| Commander Biryuzov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Soviet forces in Hungary
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| Commander Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Kiev Appointed Commander of the Kiev Military District
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| Commander Grechko, Andrei Antonovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander-in-Chief in East Germany
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| Commissar Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Appointed Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 2nd term, after the death of Stalin
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| Constitution Eriksen, Erik |  |
| 5th June Copenhagen Denmark adopts a new Constitution
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| Constitution Tito, Josip Broz |  |
| Belgrade Decentralized communism of worker's self-management & support of private farming
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| Coronation Elizabeth II | |
| 2nd June Westminster Abbey Crowned in Westminster Abbey
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| 24th June Edinburgh Given the crown, sceptre & sword, bestowing upon her the right to rule Scotland
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| Coronation Stein, John "Jock" | |
| Captains Celtic to Coronation Cup success when they unexpectedly beat Arsenal 1-0, Manchester United 2-1 and Hibernian 1-0 to become unofficial champions of Britain
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| Council of Economic Advisers Burns, Arthur Frank | |
| Appointed Head the Council of Economic Advisers by President Eisenhower
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| Coup d'Etat Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro | |
| Castro is tried in the fall of 1953 & sentenced up to 15 yrs in prison
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| 26th July Castro leads the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, after which he is captured, tried, incarcerated & later released
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| Coup d'Etat Mossadeq, Muhammad | |
| 16th Aug Tehran The Shah fails to have Mossadeq arrested & is forced to leave to country for Italy
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| 19th Aug Tehran Ousted in a Coup organized by British & USAintelligence
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| 20th Aug Tehran Mossadeq surrenders to General Zahedi
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| Death Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 5th Mar De |
