The following events occurred in November 1953:
November 1, 1953 (Sunday) WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting. KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting. KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting. Born: Darrell Issa, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, in Cleveland, Ohio
November 2, 1953 (Monday)
November 3, 1953 (Tuesday)
November 4, 1953 (Wednesday)
Died: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and patron of music, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
November 5, 1953 (Thursday) David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.
November 6, 1953 (Friday)
November 7, 1953 (Saturday)
November 8, 1953 (Sunday)
November 9, 1953 (Monday) Cambodia becomes independent from France. The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against the French Army in a Two-front war.
November 10, 1953 (Tuesday)
November 11, 1953 (Wednesday)
November 12, 1953 (Thursday)
November 13, 1953 (Friday) Born: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico 2018-2024, in Tepetitán, Tabasco, Mexico Born: Henriette Strobel, Dschinghis Khan member since 1979, in Munich, Germany
November 14, 1953 (Saturday)
Born: Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007, in Rabat, Morocco
November 15, 1953 (Sunday)
November 16, 1953 (Monday) Born: Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, in Cardiff
November 17, 1953 (Tuesday)
November 18, 1953 (Wednesday) Born: Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian, in St. Louis, Missouri
November 19, 1953 (Thursday)
November 20, 1953 (Friday)
The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2. Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) was a hoax.
November 21, 1953 (Saturday) Puerto Williams was founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.
November 22, 1953 (Sunday) Operation Castor: French paratroopers took Điện Biên Phủ.
November 23, 1953 (Monday)
November 24, 1953 (Tuesday)
November 25, 1953 (Wednesday) "Match of the Century": England lost 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental European team at home.
November 26, 1953 (Thursday)
November 27, 1953 (Friday)
November 28, 1953 (Saturday)
November 29, 1953 (Sunday) First Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu – French paratroopers consolidate their position at Điện Biên Phủ. November 30, 1953 (Monday) Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
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