November 1953

November 1, 1953 (Sunday)

• WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY begins broadcasting.
• KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO begins broadcasting.
• KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX begins broadcasting.
• Born: Darrell Issa, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, in Cleveland, Ohio

November 4, 1953 (Wednesday)

• Died: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and patron of music, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

November 5, 1953 (Thursday)

• David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.

November 9, 1953 (Monday)

• * Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• * The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against the French Army in a Two-front war.

November 13, 1953 (Friday)

• Born: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico since 2018, in Tepetitán, Tabasco, Mexico
• Born: Henriette Strobel, Dschinghis Khan member since 1979, in Munich, Germany

November 14, 1953 (Saturday)

• Born: Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007, in Rabat, Morocco

November 16, 1953 (Monday)

• Born: Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, in Cardiff

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, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2.
• Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man was a hoax.

November 21, 1953 (Saturday)

• Puerto Williams was founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.

November 22, 1953 (Sunday)

• Operation Castor: French paratroopers took Điện Biên Phủ.

November 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

• "Match of the Century": England lost 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental European team at home.

November 29, 1953 (Sunday)

• First Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu - French paratroopers consolidate their position at Điện Biên Phủ.

November 30, 1953 (Monday)

• Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.