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 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 8, 1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
- February 26, 1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
- March 10, 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
- March 21, 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- April 11, 1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
- April 15, 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
- April 28, 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
- May 2, 1952 – The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
- June 13, 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
- July 3, 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
- July 23, 1952 – The European Coal and Steel community is established.
- July 25, 1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law.
- August 11, 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
- August 15, 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
- September 12, 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- September 23, 1952 – Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
- November 1, 1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” [“M” for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
- December 20, 1952 – United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
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