June 1953

Tuesday 02:

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.

Wednesday 03:

Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.

Monday 08:

The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.

Tuesday 09:

Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.

Saturday 13:

Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy

Wednesday 17:

Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.

Thursday 18:

A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan killing 129

Saturday 27:

Joseph Laniel becomes Prime Minister of France.