Editing 1953 (section)

===April===
{{Main|April 1953}}
[[File:DNA Structure+Key+Labelled.png|thumb|right|180px|[[April 25]]: DNA [[double helix]] described.]]
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] is elected [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]].
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Jomo Kenyatta]] is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the [[Mau Mau Uprising]] in the British [[Kenya Colony]].
* [[April 16]]
** President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, to the National Association of Newspaper Editors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19530416%20Chance%20for%20Peace.htm |title=Chance for Peace Speech |date=April 16, 1953 |publisher=Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission |access-date=August 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122085615/http://eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19530416%20Chance%20for%20Peace.htm |archive-date=November 22, 2010 }}</ref>
** The Habar Corporation's building in Chicago, United States, catches fire, killing 35 employees.
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Francis Crick]] and [[James Watson]] publish "[[Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid]]", their description of the [[double helix]] structure of [[DNA]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Watson|first1=J. D.|last2=Crick|first2=F. H. C.|year=1953|url=http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/index.html|title=Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid|volume=171|issue=4356|pages=737–738|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|access-date=August 9, 2010|doi=10.1038/171737a0|pmid=13054692|bibcode=1953Natur.171..737W|s2cid=4253007}}</ref>