Editing 1953 (section)

===May===
{{Main|May 1953}}
[[File:Mount Everest, Himalayas.jpg|thumb|180px|[[May 29]]: [[Mount Everest]] conquered.]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]] is crowned [[King of Jordan]].<ref>{{cite news |title=King Hussein of Jordan |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |department=Royalty Obituaries |date=8 February 1999 |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/7136625/King-Hussein-of-Jordan.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211142338/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/7136625/King-Hussein-of-Jordan.html |archive-date=11 February 2010 |access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Aldous Huxley]] first tries the [[Psychedelic drug|psychedelic]] hallucinogen [[mescaline]], inspiring his book ''[[The Doors of Perception]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Costandi |first=Mo |title=A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2014/sep/02/psychedelic-psychiatry |newspaper=The Guardian |department=Neuroscience |date=2 September 2014 |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] 
** France agrees to the provisional independence of [[Cambodia]], with King [[Norodom Sihanouk]].
** [[Australian Senate election, 1953]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] Coalition [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]], led by Prime Minister [[Robert Menzies]], holds their [[Australian Senate|Senate]] majority, despite gains made by the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]], led by [[H. V. Evatt]]. This is the first occasion where a Senate election is held without an accompanying [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] election.
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[1953 Waco tornado outbreak|Waco tornado outbreak]]: An [[Fujita scale|F5]] tornado hits in the downtown section of [[Waco, Texas]], killing 114.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Roy Sylvan |last=Dunn |title=Tornadoes |encyclopedia=[[Handbook of Texas Online]] |access-date=17 May 2022 |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/tornadoes |publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/listevents.jsp?eventType=%28C%29+Tornado&beginDate_mm=05&beginDate_dd=09&beginDate_yyyy=1953&endDate_mm=05&endDate_dd=11&endDate_yyyy=1953&hailfilter=0.00&tornfilter=0&windfilter=000&sort=DT&submitbutton=Search&statefips=-999%2CALL |title=Search Results |work=Storm Events Database |publisher=[[National Centers for Environmental Information]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; The [[Standards And Recommended Practices]] (SARPS) for [[Aeronautical Information Service]] (AIS) are adopted by the [[ICAO]] Council. These SARPS are in Annex 15 to the [[Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation|Chicago Convention]], and 15 May is celebrated by the AIS community as "World AIS Day".<ref>{{cite web |title=Annex 15 – Aeronautical Information Services |website=applications.icao.int |department=The Postal History of ICAO |access-date=31 May 2022 |url=https://applications.icao.int/postalhistory/annex_15_aeronautical_information_services.htm}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] &ndash; At [[Rogers Dry Lake]], Californian [[Jacqueline Cochran|Jackie Cochran]] becomes the first woman to exceed [[Speed of sound|Mach 1]], in a [[North American F-86 Sabre]] at {{convert|652.337|mph|kn km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/meet-jacqueline-cochran |last1=Cochrane |first1=Dorothy |last2=Ramirez |first2=P. |title=Meet Jacqueline Cochran |date=28 October 2021 |website=[[National Air and Space Museum]] |access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Nuclear testing]]: At the [[Nevada Test Site]], the United States conducts its only [[nuclear artillery]] test: [[Upshot-Knothole Grable]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Operation Upshot-Knothole – 1953 |url=https://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/upshot_knothole/index.html |website=Radiochemistry Society U.S. Nuclear Tests Info Gallery 1945-1962 |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[1953 British Mount Everest expedition]]: Sir [[Edmund Hillary]] from [[New Zealand]] and [[Tenzing Norgay]] from [[Nepal]] become the first men to reach the summit of [[Mount Everest]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imagingeverest.rgs.org/Concepts/Imaging_Everest/-75.html |title=Mount Everest Expedition 1953 |website=Imaging Everest |publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]], [[Institute of British Geographers]] |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061539/http://imagingeverest.rgs.org/Concepts/Imaging_Everest/-75.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>