1952

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Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.

[edit] February

The 3 Queens in mourning- Queen Elizabeth II, her grandmother Queen Mary and mother Queen Elizabeth at the funeral of King George VI.

February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day. It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.
February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
February 6 - In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.
February 14 to February 25 - Winter Olympics in Oslo
February 15 - Funeral of King George VI takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
February 16 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker formed in Eastern Oregon.
February 20 - Emmett L. Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
February 21 - Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards
February 26 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.

[edit] March

March 4: Reagan marries Nancy Davis.

March 4 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.
March 10 - General Fulgencio Batista takes power in Cuba - again
March 15 to March 16 - 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in Cilaos, Réunion, the most rainfall ever in one day
March 20 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
March 21 - The last two executions in the Netherlands take place.
March 21 - Dr Kwame Nkrumah elected the Prime Minister of the Gold Coast
March 27 - Failed assassination attempt against Konrad Adenauer

[edit] April

April 4 - In Hague tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth 3 billion dollars from Germany.
April 11 - Battle of Nanri island took place.
April 18 - Bolivia National Revolution: universal vote enables indigenous and women to vote, nationalization of mines and agrarian reform.
April 18 - West Germany and Japan form diplomatic relations.
April 23 - Nuclear test in Nevada desert.
April 28 - The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the occupation of Japan.
April 28 - Treaty of Taipei (Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China)

[edit] May

May 1 - East Germany threatens to form its own army.
May 2 - First passenger jet flight route between London and Johannesburg
May 3 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
May 6 - Farouk of Egypt had himself announced as a descendant of prophet Muhammad.
May 13 - Pandit Nehru forms his first government
May 15 - Diplomatic relations established between the governments of Israel and Japan at the level of Legations.

[edit] June

June 2: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

June 1 - Roman Catholic church bans books of André Gide.
June 2 - Coronation ceremony for new Queen Elizabeth II.
June 5 - Remains of a Viking ship found near Boston, Massachusetts.
June 14 - The keel is laid for the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
June 15 - The Diary of Anne Frank published.
June 29 - Finnish Armi Kuusela wins the title of Miss Universe.
June 30 - Marshall Aid ends.

[edit] July

France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands form the European Coal and Steel community, the foundation organisation what will become the European Union.

July 13 - East Germany announces formation of its people's army.
July 19 to August 3 - The Summer Olympic Games are held in Helsinki.
July 19 to July 26 - Washington D.C. "buzzed" by several UFOs tracked on multiple radars. Jets scrambled on several occasions and objects took evasive action only to return after the jets left the area.^{[citation needed]}
July 21 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake (richter scale) strikes Tehachapi, California, destroying unreinforced brick buildings.
July 23 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
July 23 - General Mohammed Naguib leads The Free Officers (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.
July 25 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
July 26 - Military coup in Egypt ousts King Farouk.

[edit] August

August 11 - Jordanian army forces king Talal to resign due to mental illness - his successor is his son Hussein of Jordan.
August 13 - Japan joins IMF.
August 14 - West Germany joins IMF.
August 14 - West Germany joins World Bank.
August 16 - Lynmouth in North Devon England is devastated by floods, death toll of 34.
August 26 - British passenger jet flies twice over Atlantic Ocean in the same day.
August 27 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg - Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
August 29 - Premiere of John Cage's 4' 33" in Woodstock, New York.
August 30 - Last Finnish war reparations to Soviet Union.

[edit] September

September 2 - Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis perform first open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota.
September 4 - September 9 - Thick smog in London, England causes 4,000 fatalities.
September 6 - TV debuts in Canada as the CBC in Montreal, Quebec airs.
September 8 - CBC Toronto debuts.
September 18 - Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations.

[edit] October

October 8 - Negotiations of ceasefire in Korea are postponed.
October 8 - Three-train crash in Harrow railway station in England - 110 dead.
October 14 - United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City
October 19 - Alain Bombard begins to sail from Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days; he reaches them December 23
October 19 - John Bamford, aged 15, rescues victims of a house fire and becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the George Cross.
October 20 - Martial law in Kenya due to Mau Mau uprising.

[edit] November

November 1 - Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.
November 4 - 8.25 Richter scale earthquake in Kamchatka
November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by the UNIVAC computer).
November 18 - Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for alleged connection to Mau Mau uprising
November 20 - Slánský trials - series of Stalinist and largely anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
November 20 - Fireball crashes in a backyard in Havelock North, New Zealand
November 20 - First official passenger flight over the North Pole from Los Angeles to Copenhagen
November 21 - Show trial in Czechoslovakia sentences 11 ex-communist officials to death - all of them Jews.
November 25 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London; as of 2004, it continues, next door at the St. Martin's Theatre, and remains the longest continuously running production of a play in history.
November 29 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

[edit] December

December 1 - The New York Daily News carries a front page story announcing that Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual woman in Denmark became the recipient of the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
December 4 - Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descends on London (In the process coining the word "Smog", for "smoke" and "fog").
December 14 - First successful surgical separation of Siamese twins in Mount Sinai Hospital, Ohio.
December 20 - Crash of U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster at Moses Lake, WA kills 86 servicemen
December 25 - Shooting incident in West Berlin - one West German soldier is killed.
December 26 - Joseph Ivor Linton, first Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, presents his credentials to the Japanese Emperor.

[edit] Undated events

3300 die of polio in U.S.; 57,000 children are paralyzed.
National Security Agency founded.
Cold War over Germany's frontiers intensify.
Charles Chaplin expelled from U.S..
Cheez Whiz introduced.
Traffic lights in New York City.
Wernher von Braun talks about a manned flight to Mars.
Nordic Council agrees free transport of people, goods and services throughout the Nordic Countries.
National Prohibition Foundation incorporated.
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) founded.
American Embassy School of New Delhi founded.
Fallskärmsjägarna - Swedish paratrooper training school (FJS) created.

[edit] Births

**1952 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1952 MCMLII
Ab urbe condita	2705
Armenian calendar	1401 ԹՎ ՌՆԱ
Chinese calendar	4588/4648-12-5 (辛卯年十二月初五日) — to — 4589/4649-11-15 (壬辰年十一月十五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1944 – 1945
Hebrew calendar	5712 – 5713
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2007 – 2008
- Shaka Samvat	1874 – 1875
- Kali Yuga	5053 – 5054
Iranian calendar	1330 – 1331
Islamic calendar	1372 – 1373
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 27 (昭和27年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2612 (皇紀2612年)
- Jōmon Era	11952
Thai solar calendar	2495

[edit] January-February

January 17 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician, composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra)

February 1 - Stan Kasten, baseball executive, currently President of the Washington Nationals
February 3 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
February 14 - Nancy Keenan, current president of NARAL
February 22 - William Frist, heart surgeon and U.S. Senator
February 25 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
February 29 - Gary The Retard, member of The Wack Pack from radio's The Howard Stern Show

[edit] March-April

March 1 - Steven Barnes, American author
March 1 - Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
March 2 - Laraine Newman, American comedian
March 4 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
March 4 - Ronn Moss, American actor
March 4 - Scott Hicks, Australian movie director
March 7 - Viv Richards, West Indian cricket captain
March 11 - Douglas Adams, English author (d. 2001)
March 12 - Eliézer Niyitegeka, Rwandan journalist, politician, and genocidaire
March 13 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
March 22 - Bob Costas, American sports announcer
March 23 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
March 25 - Jung Chang, Chinese-born author and historian
March 25 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and politician
March 29 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
March 30 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
March 31 - Vanessa Del Rio, American actress

April 1 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
April 4 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
April 11 - Peter Windsor, British sports reporter
April 12 - Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist (d. 2004)
April 16 - Billy West, American voice actor
April 17 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (d. 2000)
April 22 - Marilyn Chambers, American actress
April 25 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
April 28 - Mary McDonnell, American actress

[edit] May-June

May 2 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster
May 2 - Isla St Clair, Scottish singer
May 3 - Allan Wells, Scottish athlete
May 3 - Leonid Khachiyan, Russian-born mathematician
May 4 - Michael Barrymore, British comedian and TV presenter
May 6 - Michael O'Hare, American actor
May 10 - Thomas Paty Stamps, American bankruptcy attorney and historian
May 11 - Renaud Séchan, French composer
May 11 - Mike Lupica, American sports journalist
May 14 - David Byrne, Scottish-born singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Talking Heads)
May 14 - Robert Zemeckis, American director
May 16 - James Herndon, American media psychologist
May 18 - George Strait, American musician
May 18 - Diane Duane, American writer
May 19 - Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
May 20 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
May 21 - Mr. T, American actor
May 28 - Victoria Cunningham, American actress and Playmate