Editing 1953 (section)

===November===
{{Main|November 1953}}
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[David Ben-Gurion]] resigns as [[prime minister]] of [[Israel]].
* [[November 9]]
** [[Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–70)|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]].
* [[November 20]]
** The [[Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket]], piloted by [[Scott Crossfield]], becomes the first manned aircraft to reach [[Mach number|Mach]] 2.
** Authorities at the [[Natural History Museum, London]] announce that the [[Human skull|skull]] of [[Piltdown Man]] (allegedly an [[early human]] discovered in [[1912]]) is a [[hoax]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Solution of the Piltdown Problem|author1=Weiner, J. S.|author2-link=Kenneth Oakley|author2=Oakley, K. P.|author3-link=Wilfrid Le Gros Clark|author3=Le Gros Clark, W. E.|journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series|volume=2|issue=3|pages=141–6|date=1953-11-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Piltdown Man forgery|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1953-11-21|page=6}}</ref>
* [[November 20]]&ndash;[[November 22|22]] &ndash; [[First Indochina War]]: [[Operation Castor]] &ndash; In a massive airborne operation in Vietnam, French forces establish a base at [[Điện Biên Phủ]].
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Puerto Williams]] is founded in Chile, as the southernmost settlement of the world.
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Match of the Century (1953 England v Hungary football match)]]: The [[England national football team]] loses 6–3 to [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]], their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[First Indochina War]]: [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]] &ndash; French [[paratrooper]]s consolidate their position at [[Điện Biên Phủ]].
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Kabaka crisis]]: [[Mutesa II of Buganda|Edward Mutesa II]], the ''[[Kabaka of Buganda|kabaka]]'' (king) of [[Buganda]], is deposed and exiled to London by [[Andrew Cohen (colonial governor)|Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen]], Governor of [[Protectorate of Uganda|Uganda]].