1953

Events

• The film Shane is released on Earth, featuring actors Alan Ladd, Jack Palance and Brandon De Wilde. (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon")
• The film The Wages of Fear is released on Earth. (ENT: "Vox Sola")
• Gaunt Gary hustles Willie Mosconi in the Ames Pool Hall in New York City. (VOY: "The Cloud")
• The Human Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies on Earth. That September, Douglas Pabst, the editor of Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder, comments snidely that Herbert Rossoff has been angry ever since, implying that he is a Communist. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
• The USSR tests its first H-bomb. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
• Gambling action is slated at Albany, New York. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
• The United Nations holds a meeting in London. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")

Notes

• From Here to Eternity is released. (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 286)

External link

• 1953 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works