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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1952


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 5 - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
  • January 11 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general
  • January 11 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
  • January 14 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
  • January 15 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
  • January 17 - Walter Briggs, Sr.
  • January 18 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
  • January 26 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
  • February 6 - George VI of the United Kingdom, (b. 1895)
  • February 10 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist
  • February 13 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
  • February 14 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
  • February 19 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author
  • March 1 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
  • March 4 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist
  • March 6 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
  • March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
  • March 11 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
  • March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
  • March 31 - Wallace H. White, Jr.
  • April 3 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician
  • April 5 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
  • April 23 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
  • April 27 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
  • May 6 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
  • May 8 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
  • May 21 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
  • June 1 - John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist.
  • June 9 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
  • June 16 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist
  • June 17 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
  • June 19 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
  • June 20 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
  • June 21 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
  • June 27 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
  • July 6 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
  • July 18 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
  • July 18 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
  • July 25 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
  • July 26 - Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady (b. 1919)
  • August 5 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
  • August 12 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
  • August 16 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
  • August 18 - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
  • August 31 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
  • September 6 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
  • September 10 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
  • September 22 - Kaarlo Juho Stĺhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
  • September 26 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
  • September 29 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
  • October 5 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
  • October 8 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
  • October 22 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874)
  • October 26 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
  • October 28 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
  • October 31 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
  • November 9 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
  • November 9 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
  • November 13 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)
  • November 18 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
  • November 26 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
  • December 8 - Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
  • December 12 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
  • December 27 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
  • December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
  • December 31 - Hank Williams, American singer

Events
  • January 22 - The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
  • January 24 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
  • January 26 - Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
  • February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen 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 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
  • February 15 - King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
  • February 20 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
  • February 21 - The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • February 21 - In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession of students that was demanding the establishment of Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared as "International Mother Language Day" by UNESCO.
  • February 26 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
  • February 29 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
  • March 10 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
  • March 15 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
  • March 16 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 1,870mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
  • March 20 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
  • March 21 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • April 8 - U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
  • April 9 - 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 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
  • April 15 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
  • April 21 - Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
  • April 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
  • April 28 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
  • May 2 - The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
  • May 3 - Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
  • May 7 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
  • May 12 - Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
  • May 13 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
  • May 28 - Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
  • May 28 - The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
  • June 13 - Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
  • June 14 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
  • June 21 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • July 3 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
  • July 23 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
  • July 23 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • July 25 - 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.
  • July 26 - King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
  • August 11 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.
  • August 12 - The Night of the Murdered Poets
  • August 15 - Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
  • August 22 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
  • August 23 - The Arab League is formed.
  • August 27 - West Germany and Israel conclude reparation negotiations in Luxembourg; West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsch Marks.
  • September 6 - Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
  • September 15 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
  • September 19 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
  • September 23 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
  • October 3 - The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
  • October 7 - "American Bandstand" debuts on a local Philadelphia station.
  • October 8 - The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
  • October 20 - Governor Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency in Kenya and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
  • November 1 - Operation Ivy
  • November 4 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
  • November 14 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
  • November 20 - Slánský trials
  • November 25 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
  • November 29 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower 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 reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
  • December 4 - 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.
  • December 5 - 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.
  • December 20 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.


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