First ascent of Mount Everest
1953 · Event
Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of the world's highest mountain.
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Around 1953
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)