6 Mar 1953
- USS Tunny was recommissioned into service. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
- USS Menhaden was recommissioned into service, Lieutenant Commander William R. Werner in command. ww2dbase [Menhaden | CPC]
- Panteleimon Ponomarenko stepped down from his position at the Soviet Presidium, the successor of the Politburo. ww2dbase [Panteleimon Ponomarenko | Moscow | CPC]
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