March 1953

Sunday 01:

Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.

A Canadian Pacific Comet Jet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1953 - World contact day

An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.

Academy Awards are first televised.

Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

A fire at a nursing home in Largo, Florida kills 35 people.

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