November 1953

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The following events occurred in November 1953:

• WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting.
• KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting.
• KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting.
• Born: Darrell Issa, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, in Cleveland, Ohio^[1]

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• Died: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and patron of music, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.

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• • Cambodia becomes independent from France.
  • The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against the French Army in a Two-front war.

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• Born: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico since 2018, in Tepetitán, Tabasco, Mexico
• Born: Henriette Strobel, Dschinghis Khan member since 1979, in Munich, Germany

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• Born: Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007, in Rabat, Morocco

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• Born: Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, in Cardiff^[2]

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• Born: Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian, in St. Louis, Missouri

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• The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2.
• Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) was a hoax.^[3][4]

• Puerto Williams was founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.

• Operation Castor: French paratroopers took Điện Biên Phủ.

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• "Match of the Century": England lost 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental European team at home.

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• First Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu – French paratroopers consolidate their position at Điện Biên Phủ.

• Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.