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  • Laos
    Thursday Apr 9, 1953
    First Indochina War

    Giáp began To pressure the French

    Laos
    Thursday Apr 9, 1953

    On April 9, 1953, Giáp, after having failed repeatedly in direct attacks on French positions in Vietnam, changed strategy and began to pressure the French by invading Laos, surrounding and defeating several French outposts such as Muong Khoua.




  • North of Yeoncheon, South Korea
    Thursday Apr 16, 1953
    Korean War

    The Battle of Pork Chop Hill

    North of Yeoncheon, South Korea
    Thursday Apr 16, 1953

    The Battle of Pork Chop Hill comprises a pair of related Korean War infantry battles during April and July of 1953. These were fought while the United Nations Command (UN) and the Chinese and North Koreans negotiated the Korean Armistice Agreement. In the U.S., they were controversial because of the many soldiers killed for terrain of no strategic or tactical value, although the Chinese lost many times the number of US soldiers killed and wounded. The first battle was described in the eponymous history Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring 1953, by S.L.A. Marshall, from which the film Pork Chop Hill was drawn. The UN won the first battle but the Chinese won the second battle.




  • United Kingdom
    Apr, 1953
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Peter Townsend proposed marriage

    United Kingdom
    Apr, 1953

    In April 1953, Peter Townsend proposed marriage.




  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Apr 16, 1953
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Chance for Peace speech

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Apr 16, 1953

    In 1953, the Republican Party's Old Guard presented Eisenhower with a dilemma by insisting he disavow the Yalta Agreements as beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch; however, the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 made the matter a moot point. At this time, Eisenhower gave his Chance for Peace speech in which he attempted, unsuccessfully, to forestall the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union by suggesting multiple opportunities presented by peaceful uses of nuclear materials. Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency. Eisenhower sought to make foreign markets available to American business, saying that it is a "serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy, the encouragement of a hospitable climate for investment in foreign nations".




  • U.S.
    Monday Apr 20, 1953
    Marlon Brando

    Cover of Life Magazine

    U.S.
    Monday Apr 20, 1953

    Brando was featured on cover of Life Magazine for his role of Marc Antony, in Shakespeare's Julius Caeser.




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