Historical Events in June 1952

Jun 1 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index

Jun 1 French Championships Men's Tennis: England based Czech Jaroslav Drobný wins his 2nd straight French title; beats Frank Sedgman of Australia 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
Jun 1 French Championships Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-4, 6-4 for her 2nd French singles title
Jun 2 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
Jun 2 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
Jun 3 Romanian communist leader Petru Groza chosen as President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly

Jun 5 1st sporting event televised nationally - Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Jun 5 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
Jun 7 "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 performances
Jun 7 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Muirfield, Scotland: Great Britain & Ireland score first ever win in the contest; beat US, 5-4

Jun 7 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2

Jun 10 Chicago White Sox outfielder Sam Mele is only 6th MLB player to record 6 RBI's in an inning (4th) during a 15-4 win over the A's in Philadelphia
Jun 10 US President Harry Truman expresses a desire to nationalize the steel industry

Jun 11 Opening batsman Len Hutton becomes the 1st professional cricketer to captain England in Tests

Jun 12 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
Jun 12 2nd Berlin International Film Festival: "One Summer of Happiness" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
Jun 13 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
Jun 14 US Open Men's Golf, Northwood GC: Julius Boros wins 1st of 3 majors by 4 shots from Ed Oliver
Jun 14 General strike in Tunisia

Jun 14 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)

Jun 14 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)

Jun 14 Boston Brave Warren Spahn ties NL record held by Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15 innings

Jun 16 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
Jun 17 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
Jun 19 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
Jun 19 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
Jun 21 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Skokie CC: Betsy Rawls defeats Betty Jameson, 1 up in the final
Jun 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
Jun 23 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
Jun 25 "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 performances
Jun 25 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Big Spring CC: Jim Turnesa wins 1-up over Chick Harbert in the Wednesday final
Jun 25 Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
Jun 26 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

Jun 26 Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew

Jun 29 US Open Women's Golf, Bala GC: 1949 champion Louise Suggs wins, 7 strokes ahead of runners-up Marlene Bauer and Betty Jameson