and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious until his death on March 5. Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle. March 6 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin, as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. March 8 – The Thieves World, which has been transformed into the Russian mafia, are freed from prisons by the Malenkov regime, ending the Bitch Wars. March 13 – The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld from Sweden as United Nations Secretary General. March 14 – Nikita Khrushchev is selected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot–Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at . March 18 – The Yenice–Gönen earthquake affects western Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (violent), causing at least 1,070 deaths, and $3.57 million in damage. March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards Ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television). March 25–26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives. March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. March 29 – A fire at the Littlefield Nursing Home in Largo, Florida, kills 33 persons, including singer-songwriter Arthur Fields. April April 7 – Dag Hammarskjöld is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising in the British Kenya Colony. April 16 President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, to the National Association of Newspaper Editors. The Habar Corporation's building in Chicago, United States, catches fire, killing 35 employees. April 25 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA. May May 2 – Hussein is crowned King of Jordan. May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception. May 9 France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia, with King Norodom Sihanouk. Australian Senate election, 1953: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, holds their Senate majority, despite gains made by the Labor Party, led by H. V. Evatt. This is the first