1952 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1952?
- January 7, 1952 – President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- January 14, 1952 – NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
- January 27, 1952 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 6, 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- February 15, 1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
- February 21, 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
- February 29, 1952 – The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
- April 11, 1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- April 15, 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
- April 28, 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- May 2, 1952 – The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
- May 7, 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
- May 12, 1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- 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 11, 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- August 12, 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
- 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 20, 1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
- November 25, 1952 – Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
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