1952

Year 1952 (''' MCMLII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .

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

, 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 - 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 Reparation s 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

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 Colonel s 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

, 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 UFO s 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 - Jordan ian 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 Flood s, 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 Mark s.

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 - Indonesia n 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

- The United States successfully Detonate s the first Hydrogen Bomb , codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean , with a Yield of 10.4 Megaton s.

November 4 - 8.25 Richter Scale Earthquake in Kamchatka

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 Jew s.

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.

-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.

(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 .¹

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 Light s 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 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

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