1952 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1952?
- January 26, 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo’s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
- 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 21, 1952 – “ভাষা আন্দোলন”, “Bengali Language Movement” occurred in East Pakistan(now Bangladesh).
- February 29, 1952 – The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
- March 20, 1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
- March 21, 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- April 9, 1952 – Hugo Ballivian’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- 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 7, 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
- June 21, 1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 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 15, 1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 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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