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...