Historical Events in 1952 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 426

• Jun 14 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)
• Jun 14 US Open Men's Golf, Northwood GC: Julius Boros wins 1st of 3 majors by 4 shots from Ed Oliver
• 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 Brooklyn Dodgers 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 Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
• Jun 25 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Big Spring CC: Jim Turnesa wins 1-up over Chick Harbert in the Wednesday final
• Jun 26 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

• Jun 29 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn
• Jun 30 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
• Jun 30 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
• Jul 1 English architect Michael Ventris says he has solved one of the 20th century's greatest linguistic riddles, by deciphering Linear B in BBC interview. Is an ancient form of Greek on clay tablets from Minoan palace of Knossos. [1]
• Jul 1 The first NASCAR Grand National event is run outside of the US with Buddy Shuman winning the 200-lap race at Stamford Park, Ontario, Canada
• Jul 2 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
• Jul 3 Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress
• Jul 4 Canadian Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted

• Jul 6 Last tram ride in London
• Jul 7 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
• Jul 8 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
• Jul 11 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: 3 titles in 4 years for Bobby Locke of South Africa beating Australian Peter Thomson by a stroke

• Jul 12 East German SED decides to form German DR army
• Jul 14 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
• Jul 15 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins

• Jul 18 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, Colorado (IND) begins broadcasting
• Jul 19 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
• Jul 19 39th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
• Jul 19 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
• Jul 19 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
• Jul 19 XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland
• Jul 20 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)

• Jul 21 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
• Jul 21 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
• Jul 22 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
• Jul 23 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)

• Jul 24 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
• Jul 24 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
• Jul 24 US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
• Jul 25 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)
• Jul 26 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]

• Jul 27 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson makes it back-to-back gold medals in the 10k event at the Helsinki Olympics, having won the corresponding race in London in 1948
• Jul 29 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
• Jul 30 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

• Aug 3 XV Summer Olympic Games close in Helsinki, Finland

• Aug 8 Syngman Ree re-elected president of South Korea
• Aug 9 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
• Aug 11 Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
• Aug 12 Hussein ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
• Aug 13 Blues singer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton records "Hound Dog" song, written a day earlier especially for her by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, at Radio Recorders Studio in Los Angeles, California

• Aug 14 Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary
• Aug 15 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
• Aug 15 9 inches of rain fall creates a 20 ft wave in Lynmouth, England, killing 34
• Aug 17 "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)

• Aug 22 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• Aug 23 Arab League security pact goes into effect
• Aug 23 Giants Bob Elliott is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman completes his bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing
• Aug 23 Kitty Wells becomes 1st woman to reach #1 on Billboard Country chart with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"; stays at top for 15 weeks [1]
• Aug 25 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
• Aug 25 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
• Aug 26 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
• Aug 27 Having already won 5,000m and 10,000m gold medals, Czech star Emil Zátopek claims rare Olympic treble taking out Helsinki Games marathon in OR 2:23:03.2
• Aug 28 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
• Aug 28 Yakov Malik succeeds Valerian Zorin as Soviet Foreign minister
• Aug 29 New York premiere of history-based film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima"
• Sep 1 Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney
• Sep 1 Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
• Sep 2 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
• Sep 5 General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
• Sep 6 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
• Sep 7 Alberto Ascari of Italy in a Ferrari wins Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; wins title by 12 points from countryman Giuseppe Farina
• Sep 7 General Naguib forms Egyptian government and becomes Premier
• Sep 7 NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington, giving him a HR in all 15 major league parks
• Sep 7 Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)

• Sep 13 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
• Sep 15 Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
• Sep 15 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
• Sep 15 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
• Sep 17 "I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"

• Sep 20 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting

• Sep 23 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
• Sep 23 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant with a record of 96-57 over the New York Giants 92-62

• Sep 24 Dutch Minister of Justice Donker decides war criminal Willy Lages will not be executed but sentenced to life
• Sep 24 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
• Sep 25 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
• Sep 26 Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2

• Sep 29 "Lights Out" last airs on NBC-TV
• Oct 1 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
• Oct 1 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
• Oct 1 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
• Oct 3 1st British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation
• Oct 3 1st video recording on magnetic tape in Los Angeles, California
• Oct 4 "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
• Oct 5 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
• Oct 5 6th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: 1st Team ties 2nd Team, 1-1; second year format - 1st v 2nd All-Star Teams, with additional players

• Oct 7 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 at Ebbets Field in Game 7 to tie own record 4th straight WS; MVP: NY 1B Johnny Mize

• Oct 8 112 people killed in Britain's worst peace-time rail crash at Harrow and Wealdstone, northwest London
• Oct 8 Chinese offensive in Korea
• Oct 12 Hanif Mohammad completes twin cricket centuries for Pakistan v North Zone (India) in Amritsar; 121 & 109 no
• Oct 12 KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Oct 14 "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances

• Oct 14 UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York

• Oct 15 Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo" premieres in NYC

• Oct 16 Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
• Oct 16 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (San Francisco) opens
• Oct 18 "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances
• Oct 18 Date of the first Mad Magazine issue
• Oct 18 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
• Oct 19 Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive
• Oct 20 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
• Oct 21 Dutch government refuses New Guinea (West-Irian)
• Oct 23 Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight", starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City; Not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score
• Oct 24 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria
• Oct 25 First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck"
• Oct 25 French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam
• Oct 25 Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's first ever Test cricket century (124no) in 2nd Test v India in Lucknow

• Oct 27 "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 performances
• Oct 30 4th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tim Flock wins

• Oct 31 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands

• Nov 3 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
• Nov 3 Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
• Nov 4 Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
• Nov 4 Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson

• Nov 12 Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
• Nov 12 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
• Nov 13 False fingernails 1st sold
• Nov 13 KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Nov 14 First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
• Nov 14 Greek General Alexander Papagos wins elections
• Nov 16 Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
• Nov 19 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
• Nov 19 Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe
• Nov 19 Spain joins UNESCO
• Nov 20 Chicago Cubs slugging left fielder Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
• Nov 20 George Axelrod's play "Seven Year Itch" premieres in NYC
• Nov 20 Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
• Nov 21 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
• Nov 21 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 22 As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 25 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
• Nov 25 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (1-11), beating the Chicago Bears, 27-23 at the Cotton Bowl
• Nov 26 1st 3D feature film "Bwana Devil" directed by Arch Oboler premieres in Los Angeles, advertised as "The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!"
• Nov 27 KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Nov 29 17th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-0 in Birmingham
• Nov 29 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts prove to be the dominant club in Canada with their record 10th Championship; beat Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
• Nov 29 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

• Dec 1 The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation
• Dec 2 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
• Dec 2 First human birth televised to public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado
• Dec 3 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
• Dec 3 Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
• Dec 4 Walter P. Reuther chosen chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the US
• Dec 5 Great Smog of London (England): Killer fog creeps in, as still winds and cold temperatures cause pollution fueled by coal smoke to stagnate; lasting 4 days, over 8,000 deaths attributed to conditions [1] [2]
• Dec 6 Czech government tells Israeli ambassador that he is persona non grata
• Dec 7 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
• Dec 8 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)

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