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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1953 |
Milan-San Remo |
Loretto Petrucci (Ita) |
282 km |
| April 5, 1953 |
Tour of Flanders |
Wim Van Est (Hol)
|
253 km |
| April 12, 1953 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Germain Deryke (Bel) |
245 km |
| May 3, 1953 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Alois De Hertog (Bel)
|
236 km |
| May 12-June 2, 1953 |
Giro d'Italia |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
21 Stages
4,035 km |
| July3-26, 1953 |
Tour de France |
Louison Bobet (Fra) |
22 Stages,
4,479 km |
| Not Held |
Vuelta a Espana |
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| August 30, 1953 |
World
Championships |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
Lugano, Suisse 270 km |
| October 25, 1953 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Bruno Landi (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
222 km |
• Mount Everest - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing completed the first successful ascent to the world's high point, Mt. Everest.
• The Korean War Ends - the conflict that started in June 1950 ended in July 1953. After lengthy peace negotiations a cease-fire was established. A de-militarized zone around the 38 th parallel is still defended by both sides 50 years later. No peace treaty was ever signed.
Notable Deaths - Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, was the second leader of the Soviet Union.
Hank William, 1923-1953, an American icon, the self-destructive country western singer died of an alcohol and drug related heart attack.
Jim Thorpe, 1888-1953, the greatest athlete of his times, he was an All-American football player from the small Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He won both the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. (* See L'Equipe athlete of the decade 1910 ).
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