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The following events occurred in February 1953:

Aftermath of the Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster in Argentina.

February 1, 1953 (Sunday)

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  • JOAK-TV began broadcasting from Tokyo, the first television station in Japan.[1]
  • The surge of the North Sea flood continued from the previous day:
    • The Groenendijk, a section of the Schielands Hoge Zeedijk (Schielands High Seadyke) in the Netherlands, began to collapse. The river ship de Twee Gebroeders, commanded by Captain Arie Evegroen, was successfully used to plug the hole in the dyke.[2]
    • An S-class submarine, HMS Sirdar, was swamped by floods while in drydock at Sheerness Dockyard in the UK. It sank but was later raised and repaired.[3][4]
    • Two British police officers, Inspector Charles Lewis and Constable Leonard Deptford of the Lincolnshire Constabulary, carried out heroic rescue operations when the sea wall was breached. Both would later receive the George Medal.[5]
  • The 1953 NASCAR Grand National Series in the United States began with a race at Palm Beach Speedway, won by Lee Petty.[6]
  • Died: Archibald Nicoll, 66, New Zealand artist[7]

February 2, 1953 (Monday)

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February 3, 1953 (Tuesday)

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February 4, 1953 (Wednesday)

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February 5, 1953 (Thursday)

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February 6, 1953 (Friday)

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  • English contralto Kathleen Ferrier, terminally ill with cancer, was taken from Covent Garden Opera House in London on a stretcher after forcing herself to complete the second night of her run in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.[14]

February 7, 1953 (Saturday)

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February 8, 1953 (Sunday)

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February 9, 1953 (Monday)

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February 10, 1953 (Tuesday)

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February 11, 1953 (Wednesday)

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February 12, 1953 (Thursday)

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February 13, 1953 (Friday)

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February 14, 1953 (Saturday)

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February 15, 1953 (Sunday)

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February 16, 1953 (Monday)

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February 17, 1953 (Tuesday)

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February 18, 1953 (Wednesday)

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February 19, 1953 (Thursday)

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February 20, 1953 (Friday)

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February 21, 1953 (Saturday)

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Ilio Colli
  • Died: Ilio Colli, Italian Olympic downhill skier, training crash (b. 1931)[38]

February 22, 1953 (Sunday)

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February 23, 1953 (Monday)

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February 24, 1953 (Tuesday)

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February 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

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February 26, 1953 (Thursday)

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February 27, 1953 (Friday)

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February 28, 1953 (Saturday)

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References

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  5. ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). 28 April 1953. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
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  11. ^ The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Guinness Pub. 1992. p. 1388.
  12. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (March 12, 1953). "'Peter Pan' Takes Never Land Flight". Los Angeles Times. Part III, p. 8. Retrieved November 13, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.  
  13. ^ "1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain". BBC ON THIS DAY. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  14. ^ Ferrier, Kathleen (2003). Fifield, Christopher (ed.). Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 183–4. ISBN 1-84383-012-4.
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