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- From top to bottom, left to right: the Coronation of Elizabeth II is held in the United Kingdom; Joseph Stalin dies, ending an era of Soviet rule and prompting a power struggle; the Korean Armistice Agreement ends the Korean War, dividing Korea along the 38th parallel; the Attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba marks the beginning of the Cuban Revolution; the 1953 Iranian coup d'état overthrows Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and strengthens the Shah’s power; the East German uprising of 1953 is violently suppressed by Soviet forces; the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition achieves the first successful ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay; the North Sea flood of 1953 devastates the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, causing thousands of deaths; and the Tangiwai disaster in New Zealand kills 151 people when a train crosses a collapsed railway bridge. (en)
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