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1952 by topic:

Arts

Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country ) - Television

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Science

By country

Australia - Canada - India Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works v • d • e

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1952 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated events 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - March 3.2 April - June 3.3 July - September 3.4 October - December 3.5 Unknown date 4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship 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 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 4 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.
• March 10 - General Fulgencio Batista takes power in Cuba - again
• 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 4 - In Hague tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth 3 billion dollars from Germany.
• April 11 - Battle of Nanri island took place.
• 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 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 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 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 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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 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 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 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 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 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^{[citation needed]}
• 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 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.

• 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.

1952 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1952 MCMLII
Ab urbe condita	2705
Armenian calendar	1401 ԹՎ ՌՆԱ
Bahá'í calendar	108 – 109
Buddhist calendar	2496
Chinese calendar	4588/4648-12-5 (辛卯年十二月初五日) — to — 4589/4649-11-15 (壬辰年十一月十五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1944 – 1945
Hebrew calendar	5712 – 5713
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2007 – 2008
- Shaka Samvat	1874 – 1875
- Kali Yuga	5053 – 5054
Holocene calendar	11952
Iranian calendar	1330 – 1331
Islamic calendar	1371 – 1372
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 27 (昭和27年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2612 (皇紀2612年)
- Jōmon Era	11952
Julian calendar	1997
Korean calendar	4285
Thai solar calendar	2495
v • d • e

• 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 29 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player

• 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 21 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
• 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 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 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• October 26 - Andrew Motion, English poet
• October 28 - Annie Potts, American actress

• 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

• 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 Roosovelt (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 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)

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

• 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

• List of ship commissionings in 1952
• List of ship decommissionings in 1952