Things to jog your memory:

Hit Parade Top 10 Records of 1953:
1 - SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE - Percy Faith
2 - TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU - Teresa Brewer
3 - APRIL IN PORTUGAL - Les Baxter
4 - VAYA CON DIOS - Les Paul & Mary Ford
5 - I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU - Eddie Fisher
6 - I BELIEVE - Frankie Laine
7 - YOU, YOU, YOU - The Ames Brothers
8 - DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW - Patti Page
9 - WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME? - Joni James
10 - PRETEND - Nat King Cole

1953 Movies:
The Band Wagon
Kiss Me Kate
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Roman Holiday
Shane
Stalag 17
The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T
The Cruel Sea
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Hitch-Hiker
Lili
Peter Pan
From Here To Eternity
It Came From Outer Space
The Naked Spur
The Sword And The Rose

1953 in history:
-The first 3-D movie is shown: Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack
-Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine
-On the Air! You'd find 2,357 AM radio, 616 FM radio and 125 TV Stations.
-The Academy Awards are televised for the first time.
-Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
-Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy
-Dr. Jonas Salk announces discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis