Editing 1953 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1953}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The surge of the [[North Sea flood of 1953|North Sea flood]] continues from the previous day.
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Batepá massacre]]: Hundreds of native [[Creole peoples#Former Spanish colonies|creole]]s, known as ''forros'', are massacred in [[São Tomé Island|São Tomé]], by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners.
* [[February 11]]
** United States President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] refuses a clemency appeal for [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]].
** The [[Soviet Union]] breaks diplomatic relations with [[Israel]], after a bomb explodes at the Soviet Embassy, in reaction to the '[[Doctors' plot]]'.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The [[Nordic Council]] is inaugurated.
* [[February 13]] &ndash; Transsexual [[Christine Jorgensen]] returns to New York after successful [[sex reassignment surgery]] in Denmark.
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
* [[February 28]]
** [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] of Britain's [[University of Cambridge]] announce their discovery of the structure of the [[DNA]] molecule.
** [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]], [[Turkey]], and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] sign the [[Balkan Pact (1953)|Balkan Pact]].