1952 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 - 1952 - 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957

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 14 - - 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 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 fires at 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 - King Faruk 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 annouces formation of its people's army.
July 19 to August 3 - The Summer Olympic Games are held in Helsinki.
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 Luxenbourg - Germany will pay 3 billion D-marks.
August 30 - Last Finnish war reparations to Soviet Union
August 29 - Premiere of John Cage's 4' 33" in Woodstock, New York
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 - The first hydrogen bomb is exploded by the United States on the island of Enewetak in the Bikini Atoll.
November 4 - Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson in the U.S. presidential election (correctly predicted by UNIVAC computer)
November 4 - 8.25 Richter scale earthquake in Kamchatka
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.
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
Queen Elizabeth II comes to the throne of the United Kingdom
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
Werner von Braun talks about a manned flight to Mars.

Art, Culture & Fashion

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)

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
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, 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 (+ 2001)
May 21 - Mr. T, American actor, is born Laurence Tureaud, in Chicago
May 23 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxer
June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
August 3 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer
August 13 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
August 24 - Joe Strummer, musician
October 7- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

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
March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
April 3 - Miina Sillanpää, 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
July 26 - Eva Peron, "Evita", wife of Juan Peron
February 22 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland
September 29 - George Santayana, writer
November 23 - Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
Chaim Weizman, first president of Israel

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