Year in review

1953

4 recaps from this year - events, occasions, and cultural moments.

The young Queen's coronation in Westminster Abbey marked the beginning of a 70-year reign and defined post-war British pageantry and identity.

Three years of carnage frozen in place, never actually resolved.

Hillary and Tenzing became the first confirmed climbers to reach Earth's highest summit, symbolizing human conquest of nature.

Watson, Crick, and Franklin's elucidation of DNA's double helix unlocked the genetic code and launched modern molecular biology.

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