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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 6 - In Britain, Prime Minister Winston_Churchill discloss that Britain has developed an atomic_bomb, to be tested off the coast of Australia.

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 - 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_21 - The last two executions in the_Netherlands take place.

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.

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 fire on 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 - Farouk_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 André_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 announces formation of its people's army.

July_19 to August_3 - The Summer_Olympic_Games are held in Helsinki.

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 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 Luxembourg - Germany will pay 3 billion D-marks.

August_29 - Premiere of John_Cage's ''4' 33"'' in Woodstock,_New_York

August_30 - Last Finnish war_reparations to Soviet_Union

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

- The United_States successfully detonates the first hydrogen_bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini_atoll located in the Pacific_Ocean.

November_4 - 8.25 Richter_scale earthquake in Kamchatka

November 4 - Dwight_D._Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai_Stevenson (correctly predicted by UNIVAC computer).

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.

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.

fulfills a 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.

("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word).

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

Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity_Cards

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

Wernher_von_Braun talks about a manned flight to Mars.

Year in topic

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)

1952_in_theater

October_31 - Stratford_Shakespeare_Festival of Canada becomes a legal entity.

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

January_22 - Teddy_Gentry, Alabama (band)

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_Séchan, 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 (d. 2001)

May_20 - Roger_Milla, Cameroonian footballer

May_21 - Mr._T, American actor, is born Laurence Tureaud, in Chicago

May_23 - Marvelous Marvin_Hagler, boxer

June_7 - Liam_Neeson, actor

June_16 - Georgios_Papandreou, Greek politician

July_9 - John_Tesh, composer, musician, television host

August_3 - Osvaldo_Ardiles, Argentinian footballer

August_13 - Herb_Ritts, celebrity photographer

August_14 - Carl_Lumbly, actor

August_21 - Joe_Strummer, musician

September_22 - Bob_Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia

October_7 - Vladimir_Putin

November_25 - Imran_Khan, Pakistani cricketer

December_16 - Joel_Garner, West Indian cricketer

December_28 - Arun_Jaitley, politician, India

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

February_22 - Kaarlo_Juho_Ståhlberg, first president of Finland

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

June_17 - Krystyna_Skarbek, SOE agent

July_26 - Eva_Peron, "Evita", wife of Juan_Peron

September_29 - George_Santayana, writer

September_30 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician

October_28 - Billy_Hughes, seventh Prime_Minister_of_Australia

November_2 - Chaim_Weizmann, chemist, first President_of_Israel

November_23 - Aaro_Hellaakoski, Finnish poet

December_12 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist

December_28 - Fletcher_Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)

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

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