1952

Year '1952' ('MCMLII') was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1952

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Fictional

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Nobel prizes

Ship events

See also

Notes

External links

Table of contents

Events of 1952

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.

February

★ 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 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of Canada at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.

★ February 6 - In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

★ February 7 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St. James's Palace, London, England.

★ 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 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.

March

★ March 4 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.

★ March 10 - General Fulgencio Batista re-takes power in Cuba.

★ 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.

★ March 29 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

April

★ April 4 - In Hague tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth 3 billion dollars from Germany.

★ April 11 - Battle of Nanri island took place.

★ April 15 - The B-52 Stratofortress flies for the first time

★ 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)

★ April 29 - Lever House officially opens in New York City, heralding a new age of commercial architecture in the United States.

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.

★ May 18 - Ann Davison became the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.

June

★ June 1 - Roman Catholic church bans books of André Gide.

★ 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 21 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, was converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

★ June 29 - Finnish Armi Kuusela wins the title of Miss Universe.

★ June 30 - Marshall Aid ends.

July

★ 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.

★ 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.

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.

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.

October

★ October 8 - Negotiations of ceasefire in Korea are postponed.

★ October 8 - Three-train crash in Harrow railway station in England - 112 dead.

★ October 12 - Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority was founded in New York City at Beekman Towers

★ October 14 - United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City

★ October 17 - Indonesian troops led by Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council; Sukarno avoids confrontation

★ 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.

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 - United States 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.

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.

Undated

★ Nearly 58,000 cases of polio are reported in the U.S.– 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis. A New Challenge for Former Polio Patients, Zamula, Evelyn, , , FDA Consumer, 1991

★ National Security Agency is founded.

★ Cold War over Germany's frontiers intensify.

★ Charles Chaplin is expelled from the U.S..

★ Cheez Whiz is 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.

Ongoing

★ Marshall Plan

Fictional

The following are references to year 1952 in fiction: (unknown).

Births

January-February

★ January 1 - Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician abducted and probably killed in 1999

★ January 12 - Walter Mosley, American author

★ January 14 - Maureen Dowd, American writer

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

★ January 21 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist

★ January 21 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic

★ January 25 - Edward Fialkowski, political activist

★ 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''

★ February 29 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television's first primetime weather anchor

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 - Scott Hicks, Australian movie director

★ March 4 - Ronn Moss, American actor

★ March 4 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer

★ 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 7 - Nichita Danilov, Romanian writer

★ 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

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 - Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress

★ 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 26 - David Meece, American musician

★ May 28 - Victoria Cunningham, American actress and Playmate

★ June 7 - Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel prize.

★ June 7 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor

★ June 9 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)

★ June 16 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek politician

★ June 17 - Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive

★ June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress

★ June 20 - John Goodman, American actor

★ June 20 - Vikram Seth, Indian novelist

★ June 21 - Jeremy Coney, New Zealand cricket captains

★ June 21 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director

★ June 22 - Alastair Stewart, British newsreader

★ June 22 - Graham Greene (actor), Canadian (First Nations) actor

★ June 24 - Stephen Pusey, British-born artist

★ June 25 - Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter

★ June 27 - Douglas Unger, American novelist

★ June 28 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete

★ June 29 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player

July-August

★ July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor

★ July 9 - John Tesh, American composer, musician, and television host

★ July 12 - Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer

★ July 14 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist

★ July 20 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress

★ July 27 - Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator

★ July 31 - Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player

★ July 31 - João Barreiros, Portuguese author

★ August 1 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)

★ August 3 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer

★ August 4 - James Arbuthnot, British politician

★ August 5 - Louis Walsh, music producer and reality TV show judge

★ August 7 - Alexei Sayle, English actor

★ August 8 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author

★ August 8 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality

★ August 9 - Vicki Morgan, American model (d. 1983)

★ August 10 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

★ August 13 - Herb Ritts, American photographer

★ August 14 - Carl Lumbly, American actor

★ August 16 - Reginald VelJohnson, American actor

★ August 19 - Jonathan Frakes, American actor

★ August 21 - Joe Strummer, British musician (The Clash) (d. 2002)

★ August 24 - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican-born musician

★ August 26 - Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player

★ August 28 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman

★ August 29 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer

September-October

★ September 12 - Sergei Karaganov, Russian political scientist
September 12th-Neil Peart-Drummer/Songwriter for the canadian progressive rock band rush

★ September 18 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)

★ September 22 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia

★ September 24 - Mark Sandman, American musician and artist (Morphine) (d. 1999)

★ September 24 - Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, son of Robert F Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy and nephew of U.S president John F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy

★ September 25 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

★ September 26 - Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor from Nis

★ September 27 - Didier Dubois, French mathematician

★ September 29 - Max Sandlin, American politician

★ September 30 - Jack Wild, English actor (d. 2006)

★ October 5 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor

★ October 5 - Clive Barker, British author

★ October 7 - Vladimir Putin, Russian president

★ October 9 - Sharon Osbourne, wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne

★ October 13 - John Lone, Hong Kong actor

★ October 14 - Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast

★ October 16 - Ron Taylor, American actor (died 2002)

★ October 19 - Floyd Mayweather Sr., former professional boxer and trainer

★ October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor

★ October 26 - Andrew Motion, English poet

★ October 28 - Annie Potts, American actress

November-December

★ November 3 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian

★ November 3 - David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher

★ November 5 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator

★ November 6 - Michael Cunningham, American writer

★ November 8 - Jan Raas, Dutch professional cyclist

★ November 13 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor

★ November 16 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer

★ November 17 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player

★ November 25 - Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer

★ November 28 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress

★ November 30 - Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist

★ December 6 - Rick Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, politician, hockey player and coach

★ December 9 - Michael Dorn, American actor

★ December 12 - Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian politician

★ December 14 - Vicki Michelle, English actress

★ December 15 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist

★ December 16 - Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer

★ December 27 - Jay Hill, Canadian politician

★ December 28 - Arun Jaitley, Indian politician

★ December 30 - June Anderson, American soprano

Deaths

January - June

★ January 11 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)

★ January 18 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)

★ February 6 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)

★ February 19 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

★ February 22 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1863)

★ March 5 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)

★ March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)

★ March 9 - Alexandra Kollontai, Russian revolutionary (b.1872)

★ March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)

★ March 31 - Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)

★ March 31 - Walter Schellenberg (b. 1910)

★ April 3 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (b. 1866)

★ April 5 - Fala, Scottish Terrior to President Roosevelt (b. 1940)

★ April 21 - Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1889)

★ April 23 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)

★ May 6 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. 1870)

★ May 21 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)

★ June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British agent in World War II (b. 1915)

★ June 19 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)

July - December

★ July 26 - Eva Peron, Argentine wife of Juan Peron (b. 1919)

★ September 29 - George Santayana, Spanish-born writer (b. 1863)

★ September 30 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, American-born businessman and politician (b. 1879)

★ October 28 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)

★ November 9 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)

★ November 18 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)

★ November 21 - William D. Upshaw, American temperance movement leader (b. 1866)

★ November 26 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician (b. 1865)

★ December 12 - Bedrich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)

★ December 28 - Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen consort of Christian X of Denmark (b. 1879)

★ December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)

Unknown dates

★ Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)

Nobel prizes

★ Physics - Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell

★ Chemistry - Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge

★ Medicine - Selman Abraham Waksman

★ Literature - François Mauriac

★ Peace - Albert Schweitzer

Ship events

★ List of ship commissionings in 1952

★ List of ship decommissionings in 1952

See also

★ 20th century

Notes

External links

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