November 21, 1953

1953Tina Brown, English-American journalist and author^[†]

Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans,, is a British-American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is the former editor in chief of Tatler (1979-82), Vanity Fair (1984-92), The New Yorker (1992-98), and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast (2008-13). From 1998-2002, Brown was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk magazine and Talk Miramax Books. In 2010, she founded Women in the World, a live journalism platform to elevate the voices of women globally, with summits held through 2019. Brown is author of The Diana Chronicles (2007), The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and The Palace Papers (2022).

1953Larry Shields, American clarinet player and composer (born 1893)^[†]

Lawrence James Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. He was a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record commercially.

1953The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.^[†]

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.