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1952
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1952 in other calendars
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1952
MCMLII |
| Ab urbe condita |
2705 |
| Armenian calendar |
1401
ԹՎ ՌՆԱ |
| Chinese calendar |
4648 – 4649
辛卯 – 壬辰 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1944 – 1945 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5712 – 5713 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
2007 – 2008 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1874 – 1875 |
| - Kali Yuga |
5053 – 5054 |
| Iranian calendar |
1330 – 1331 |
| Islamic calendar |
1372 – 1373 |
1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
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.
March
April
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.
June
- June 1 - 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 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
September
October
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.
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 ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word).
- 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 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
Births
January
- January 17 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician, composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
February
March
- 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 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
April
- 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
May
- 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
June
- 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 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 - Graham Greene (actor), American actor
- June 24 - Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
- June 25 - Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter
- June 28 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
- June 28 - David Miner, Musician & Record producer
- June 29 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
July
- 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 31 - João Barreiros, Portuguese author
August
- 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 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 28 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
- August 29 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
September
- September 4 - 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 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 25 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
- September 26 - Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor from Nis
- September 29 - Max Sandlin, American politician
October
November
- November 5 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
- November 6 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
- November 8 - Jan Raas, Dutch professional cyclist
- 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
- December 6 - Rick Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, politician, hockey player and coach
- December 9 - Michael Dorn, American actor
- December 14 - Vicki Michelle, English actress
- December 15 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
- December 16 - Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer
- December 28 - Arun Jaitley, Indian politician
- December 30 - June Anderson, American soprano
Deaths
January
February
March
- March 5 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
- March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
- 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
- April 3 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (b. 1866)
- April 21 - Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1889)
- April 23 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
May
- May 6 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. 1870)
- May 21 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
June
- June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British agent in World War II (b. 1915)
July
- July 26 - Eva Peron, Argentine wife of Juan Peron (b. 1919)
September
October
- October 28 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
November
December
- 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 date
- 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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