1952 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1952?
- January 27, 1952 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
- February 26, 1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
- February 29, 1952 – The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
- March 15, 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24 hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
- April 8, 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
- April 11, 1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- May 13, 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
- June 14, 1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
- July 23, 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
- August 22, 1952 – The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
- September 8, 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
- September 12, 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- September 23, 1952 – Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
- October 14, 1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
- October 20, 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
- November 4, 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
- November 14, 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
- November 20, 1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
- December 5, 1952 – Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
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