1952

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 heads of state in 1952

Events

• 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
• February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
• February 6 - In Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill discloss that Britain has developed an atomic bomb, to be tested off the coast of Australia.
• 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 - The Funeral of King George VI
• 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 26 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb
• March 10 - General Fulgencio Batista takes power in Cuba - again
• March 20 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
• March 21 - The last two executions in the Netherlands take place.
• March 27 - Failed assassination attempt against Konrad Adenauer
• April 4 - In Hague tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth 3 billion dollars from Germany
• April 18 - West Germany and Japan form diplomatic relations
• April 23 - Nuclear test in Nevada desert.
• April 28 - the Treaty of San Francisco went into effect : the occupation of Japan ended formally.
• April 29 - Japan regains official independence. This ends the period of Occupied Japan and marks the birth of Modern Japan.
• April 29 - Two Soviet fighters fire on French passenger plane over Germany
• April 29 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty comes into force.
• May 1 - East Germany threatens to form its own army.
• May 2 - First passenger jet flight route between London and Johannesburg
• May 6 - Farouk of Egypt had himself announced as a descendant of prophet Mohammed.
• May 13 - Pandit Nehru forms his first government
• May 15 - Flash flood in Lymouth, Britain - 35 dead
• June 1 - Catholic church bans books of Andre Gide
• June 5 - Remains of a viking ship found near Boston
• June 21 - USA launches the first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus
• June 29 - Finnish Armi Kuusela wins the title of Miss Universe
• June 30 - Marshall Aid ends
• 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 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 Faruk
• August 2 - West Germany joins IMF
• August 10 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community
• August 11 - Jordanian army forces king Talal to resign - his successor is his son Hussein of Jordan
• August 14 - West Germany joins World Bank
• August 16 - Lynmouth in North Devon is devastated by floods, death toll of 31
• August 26 - British passenger jet flies twice over Atlantic in the same day
• August 27 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg - Germany will pay 3 billion D-marks.
• August 29 - Premiere of John Cage's 4' 33" in Woodstock, New York
• August 30 - Last Finnish war reparations to Soviet Union
• September 4 - September 9 - Thick smog in London causes 4,000 fatalities
• September 18 - Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership of United Nations
• 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 20 - Martial Law in Kenya due to Mau Mau uprising
• November 1 - Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
• 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 UNIVAC computer).
• November 18 - Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for alleged connection to Mau Mau uprising
• 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: Newly-elected US President Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 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 ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word).
• December 14 - First successful surgical separation of siamese twins in Mount Sinai hospital, Ohio.
• December 25 - Shooting incident in West Berlin - one West German soldier is killed

• National Security Agency founded
• Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards
• Cold War over Germany's frontiers intensify
• Sister Theresa becomes Mother Theresa and begins her charity work in Calcutta
• Charles Chaplin expelled from USA
• 3,300 die of polio in USA, 57,000 children are paralyzed
• Traffic lights in New York City
• Wernher von Braun talks about a manned flight to Mars.

Year in topic

• 1952 in film
  • February 20 - The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theatre in New York City).
  • Cinerama-system
• 1952 in literature
• 1952 in music
  • "Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton
• 1952 in sports
• 1952 in television
  • January 14 - The Today show premieres on NBC.
  • September - The first UHF television station, KLOR begins broadcasting in Portland, Oregon.
  • The first political advertisements appear on U.S. television. Democrats buy a 30 minute slot for their candidate, Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson is bombarded with hate mail for interfering with a broadcast of I Love Lucy. Dwight Eisenhower buys 20 second commercial spots and wins the election.
  • The Ernie Kovacs Show premieres. Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.
  • The first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation (KTLA)
• 1952 in theater
  • October 31 - Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada becomes a legal entity.

Births

• January 11 - Lee Ritenour, musician, composer
• January 11 - Ben Crenshaw, golfer
• January 12 - Ricky Van Shelton, country musician
• January 20 - Paul Stanley, musician, of the rock band KISS
• January 22 - Teddy Gentry, Alabama (band)
• February 1 - Rick James, musician
• February 18 - Juice Newton, country music entertainer
• February 19 - Amy Tan, novelist
• March 2 - Laraine Newman, comedian
• March 11 - Douglas Adams, science fiction author
• March 13 - Wolfgang Rihm, composer
• March 22 - Bob Costas, sports announcer
• March 23 - Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction author
• March 29 - Teofilo Stevenson, boxer
• April 22 - Marilyn Chambers, erotic actress
• May 11 - Renaud Sechan, French composer
• May 11 - Mike Lupica, sports journalist
• May 11 - Frances Farmer, actress
• May 14 - David Byrne, singer, songwriter, guitarist
• May 14 - Robert Zemeckis, director
• May 18 - George Strait, country musician
• May 19 - Joey Ramone, singer (d. 2001)
• May 20 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballerer
• May 21 - Mr. T, American actor, is born Laurence Tureaud, in Chicago
• May 23 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxer
• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
• June 16 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek politician
• August 3 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballerer
• August 13 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
• August 14 - Carl Lumbly, actor
• August 21 - Joe Strummer, musician
• September 22 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
• October 7 - Vladimir Putin
• November 25 - Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• December 16 - Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer
• December 28 - Arun Jaitley, politician, India

Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, actor, comedian, member of the Three Stooges
• February 6 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
• February 19 - Knut Hamsun, author
• February 22 - Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first president of Finland
• March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
• March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
• April 3 - Miina Sillanpaeae, Finnish left-wing trade union activist
• April 21 - Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1947-1950
• May 6 - Maria Montessori founder of the Montessori teaching method and schools; cerebral haemorraghae
• May 8 - Walter Fox, US movie producer
• May 21 - John Garfield, actor
• June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, SOE agent
• July 26 - Eva Peron, "Evita", wife of Juan Peron
• September 29 - George Santayana, writer
• September 30 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician
• October 28 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia
• November 2 - Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of Israel
• November 23 - Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
• December 12 - Bedřich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist
• December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
• Chemistry - Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
• Medicine - Selman Abraham Waksman
• Literature - Francois Mauriac
• Peace - Albert Schweitzer