--- description: Born. To deposed King Michael of Rumania, 31, who abdicated under Communist pressure in 1947, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 29: their third child, third daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland.... title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1953 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Mar. 9, 1953 by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 9, 1953 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 9, 1953 5:00 AM CUT Born. To deposed King Michael of Rumania, 31, who abdicated under Communist pressure in 1947, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 29: their third child, third daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight: 5 lbs. Born. To Seretse Khama, 31, exiled chief-designate of the Bamangwato in Britain’s African protectorate of Bechuanaland, and blonde Ruth Williams Khama 29: their second child, first son; in Chipstead, England. Name: Seretse II. Born. To Preston Sturges, 54, veteran Hollywood writer-director (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek) and fourth wife Anne Nagle Sturges, 23: their first child (his second), a son; in Hollywood. Name: Preston. Weight 5 lbs. 12 oz. Marriage Revealed. Sheilah Graham, fortyish, onetime London chorus girl turned Hollywood gossip columnist; and Wojciechowicz S. Wojtkiewicz, 35, a director of prison recreation programs for the California department of corrections; she for the third time, he for the first: in Ventura County, Calif. Divorced. By Pamela Brown, 35, auburn-haired British actress of stage (The Lady’s Not for Burning) and screen (Tales of Hoffmann): Peter Copley, 37, British character actor; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in London. Divorced. By William Waldorf Astor, 45, the third Viscount Astor (eldest son of Nancy and the late Viscount Astor) and Tory member of Parliament: Sarah Norton Astor, 32, daughter of Lord Grantley, British movie magnate; after eight years of marriage, one son; in London. Died. Robert M. (“Young Bob”) La Follette Jr., 58, Wisconsin Republican and Progressive Party Senator (1925-46), son and successor to “Fighting Bob”; by his own hand (gunshot); in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Died. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 77, Prussian commander of German armies under Hitler from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of the Bulge; of a circulatory ailment; in Hanover, Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6825576/milestones-mar-9-1953/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6825576/milestones-mar-9-1953/"},"headline":"Milestones, Mar. 9, 1953","datePublished":"1953-03-09T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T06:15:34.428Z","description":"Born. To deposed King Michael of Rumania, 31, who abdicated under Communist pressure in 1947, and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 29: their third child, third daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6825576/milestones-mar-9-1953/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6825576/milestones-mar-9-1953/","name":"Milestones, Mar. 9, 1953"}}]}] ```