American economist

Ben Bernanke

Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.

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1953

December 13

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1076 The city of Salerno surrenders to Robert Guiscard. Duke Gisulf continues his resistance in the citadel until May of the following year.
1294 Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

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The world in 1953

When Ben arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Albert Aalbers 1897– Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (died 1961) Alvin C. York 1887–1964 American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964) Amy Lee 1981– American singer, songwriter and pianist Dave Leduc 1991– Canadian martial artist Elizabeth Alexander 1908–1958 English geologist, academic, and physicist (died 1958) Emma Corrin 1995– English actor Junkyard Dog 1952– American professional wrestler (died 1998) Larry Doby 1923–2003 American baseball player (died 2003) Laurens van der Post 1906– South African-English soldier and author (died 1996)

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Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor Claire van Kampen 1953–2025 English director and composer (born 1953)

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