Modern Era · South Asia · Exploration
1953
Hillary and Tenzing Summit Everest
May 29, 1953
Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa mountaineer, stood on the summit of Everest at 11:30 in the morning - the first confirmed human beings atop the world's highest point. They spent fifteen minutes there. Tenzing left chocolates as an offering; Hillary left a crucifix. The news reached London on Coronation Day.
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Also in 1953 (7 other events on record)
- Watson and Crick publish DNA structure · Europe · Science
- Stalin dies at Kuntsevo · Europe · Politics
- Korean War armistice signed · East Asia · War
- CIA coup topples Mossadegh in Iran · Middle East · Politics
- Elizabeth II crowned in Westminster · Europe · Culture
- Rosenbergs executed · North America · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.