November 1953

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The following events occurred in November 1953:

November 5, 1953 (Thursday)

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

November 9, 1953 (Monday)

• Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• Saudi King Abdul Aziz al-Saud died.

November 10, 1953 (Tuesday)

Guitarist Kenneth J Kettner was born in McHenry Illinois.

November 20, 1953 (Friday)

• The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 2.

November 21, 1953 (Saturday)

• Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
• Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.

November 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

• England loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.

November 29, 1953 (Sunday)

• French paratroopers take Điện Biên Phủ.

November 30, 1953 (Monday)

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

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