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From top to bottom, left to right: Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels during the Mau Mau rebellion; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest; Coup supporters celebrate victory of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état; The wreckage of the KA locomotive in the Tangiwai disaster; Elizabeth proceeding past the Coronation Chair in her Coronation; Soviet T-34-85 in East Berlin during the East German uprising of 1953; the state funeral procession of Joseph Stalin; Aftermath of the North Sea flood of 1953.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1953 MCMLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2706 |
| Armenian calendar | 1402 ԹՎ ՌՆԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6703 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 109–110 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1874–1875 |
| Bengali calendar | 1360 |
| Berber calendar | 2903 |
| British Regnal year | 1 Eliz. 2 – 2 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2497 |
| Burmese calendar | 1315 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7461–7462 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4650 or 4443 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4651 or 4444 |
| Coptic calendar | 1669–1670 |
| Discordian calendar | 3119 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1945–1946 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5713–5714 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2009–2010 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1874–1875 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5053–5054 |
| Holocene calendar | 11953 |
| Igbo calendar | 953–954 |
| Iranian calendar | 1331–1332 |
| Islamic calendar | 1372–1373 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 28 (昭和２８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1884–1885 |
| Juche calendar | 42 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4286 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 42 民國42年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 485 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2496 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2079 or 1698 or 926 — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2080 or 1699 or 927 |
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1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.