Editing 1953 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1953}}
* [[January 6]] &ndash; The [[Asian Socialist Conference]] opens in [[Rangoon]], [[Burma]].
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Estonia]]n [[émigré]]s found a [[Estonian government-in-exile|government-in-exile]] in [[Oslo]].
* [[January 14]]
** Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito]] is chosen President of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
** The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-sponsored [[Robertson Panel]] first meets to discuss the [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]] phenomenon.
* [[January 15]]
** [[Georg Dertinger]], foreign minister of [[East Germany]], is arrested for spying.
** British security forces in [[West Germany]] arrest 7 members of the [[Naumann Circle]], a clandestine [[Neo-Nazi]] organization.
* [[January 19]] &ndash; 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken.
* [[January 24]]
** [[Mau Mau Uprising]]: Rebels in [[Kenya]] kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).
** Leader of East Germany [[Walter Ulbricht]] announces that agriculture will be [[Collectivization|collectivized]] in [[East Germany]].
* [[January 31]]–[[February 1]] &ndash; The [[North Sea flood of 1953]] kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially [[Zeeland]]), 307 in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=978-0-212-97022-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The great tide: The story of the 1953 flood disaster in Essex|last=Grieve|first=Hilda|year=1959|publisher=Essex County Council}}</ref> and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry {{MV|Princess Victoria}} in the [[Irish Sea]].