Proof that Wikipedia is more informative than Fox Sports Net:

Horrible things that happened in 1953:

• An Earthquake kills 250 in Turkey
• A tornado kills 114 people in Waco, Texas. A separate one kills 115 in Flint, Michigan
  
• Truman announces the U.S. has developed a Hydrogen bomb
• The North Sea Flood kills 1,835 in the Netherlands
• Flooding in Japan kills an estimated 2,566
• The Washington Huskies win an outright conference title

Awesome things that happened in 1953:

• Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
• Stalin dies
• Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond novel
• Hillary and Norgay become the first to summit Mount Everest
• The Korean War ends
• The first issue of Playboy was issued.
• The FCC approves color television
• The Washington Huskies lose in the NCAA basketball tournament

Now if only someone would tell me what the cost of gas was in 1953...