1953

Events

 * The film  is released on Earth, featuring actors Alan Ladd, Jack Palance and Brandon De Wilde.
 * Gaunt Gary hustles Willie Mosconi in the Ames Pool Hall in New York City.
 * 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.
 * The USSR test their first H-bomb.
 * Gambling action is slated at Albany, New York.
 * The United Nations holds a meeting in London.