This article is about the year 1953. For the 1996 album by Soul-Junk, see 1953 (album).
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From top to bottom, left to right: Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels during the Mau Mau rebellion; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest; Coup supporters celebrate victory of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état; The wreckage of the KA locomotive in the Tangiwai disaster; Elizabeth proceeding past the Coronation Chair in her Coronation; Soviet T-34-85 in East Berlin during the East German uprising of 1953; the state funeral procession of Joseph Stalin; Aftermath of the North Sea flood of 1953.
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1953 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1953 MCMLIII
Ab urbe condita
2706
Armenian calendar
1402 ԹՎ ՌՆԲ
Assyrian calendar
6703
Baháʼí calendar
109–110
Balinese saka calendar
1874–1875
Bengali calendar
1360
Berber calendar
2903
British Regnal year
1 Eliz. 2 – 2 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2497
Burmese calendar
1315
Byzantine calendar
7461–7462
Chinese calendar
壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4650 or 4443 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4651 or 4444
Coptic calendar
1669–1670
Discordian calendar
3119
Ethiopian calendar
1945–1946
Hebrew calendar
5713–5714
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2009–2010
- Shaka Samvat
1874–1875
- Kali Yuga
5053–5054
Holocene calendar
11953
Igbo calendar
953–954
Iranian calendar
1331–1332
Islamic calendar
1372–1373
Japanese calendar
Shōwa 28 (昭和２８年)
Javanese calendar
1884–1885
Juche calendar
42
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4286
Minguo calendar
ROC 42 民國42年
Nanakshahi calendar
485
Thai solar calendar
2496
Tibetan calendar
阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2079 or 1698 or 926 — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2080 or 1699 or 927
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