1953

  • Happy Birthday Christian Geistdörfer (1953)

    Christian Geistdörfer (born 1 February 1953 in Munich) is a German former rallye co-driver. His career in motorsport lasted from 1975 to 1990. From 1977 to 1987, he co-drove to German rallye driver Walter Röhrl, winning the World Rally Championship drivers’ title in 1980 and 1982. The pair also won the Monte Carlo Rally…

  • Happy Name Day Pamela (02/12)

    Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In the movie fifty cars are stolen in one night. The fifty cars are listed and given girls names. I have created selective coloration images…

  • Swiss TV Goes on the Air (1953)

    Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; “Swiss Television”) was the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It had its head office in Zürich. Its most viewed programme was Tagesschau (news), daily at 7:30 pm. It was formerly called SF DRS (Schweizer Fernsehen der deutschen…

  • Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Reach the Summit of Mount Everest (1953)

    Sir Edmund Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John…

  • Happy Birthday Tony Blair (1953)

    Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987…