January 1952 in History

Events in History

Jan 1 Norman McLaren's anti-war film "Neighbours" is released (Academy Award Best Documentary Short Subject) [1]
Jan 5 Flying Enterprise sinks

Jan 5 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes an official visit to the US

Jan 10 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors" premieres in Paris

Jan 11 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
Jan 12 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student, Gene Mitchell Gray, as a graduate student in chemistry
Jan 14 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
Jan 14 Snowstorm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
Jan 16 New Dutch bible translation finished
Jan 20 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone

Jan 21 Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

Jan 21 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of "The New Yorker"
Jan 24 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
Jan 26 At least 20 people have been killed and 100s injured during riots in Cairo against the British
Jan 30 Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
Jan 30 Korean War truce talks deadlock
Jan 31 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries

Jan 7 Giuliano Ferrara, Italian politician, journalist and founding editor (Il Foglio), born in Rome, Italy
Jan 9 Eva Leonie "Eveline" Herfkens, Dutch civil servant, diplomat, and politician (PvdA), born in The Hague, Netherlands
Jan 9 Hugh Bayley, British politician, born in Maidenhead, United Kingdom
Jan 11 Michael Forshaw, Australian politician
Jan 12 Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author, born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan
Jan 12 Walter Mosley, American novelist, born in Los Angeles, California
Jan 14 Sydney Biddle Barrows, American madam and author (Mayflower Madam), born in Hopewell, New Jersey
Jan 14 Maureen Dowd, American writer, born in Washington, D.C.
Jan 14 Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania, born in Bucharest, Romania
Jan 16 Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr., Major USAF/astr (STS 39, 64), born in Savannah, Georgia
Jan 16 Roberta Baskin, American correspondent (48 Hours), born in New York, United States

Jan 16 Fuad II of Egypt, last King of Egypt and Sudan (1952-53), born in Abdeen Palace, Cairo, Egypt
Jan 18 Michael Behe, American biochemist & advocate of intelligent design, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Jan 21 Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
Jan 21 Louis Menand, American writer and critic
Jan 24 William F. Readdy, American astronaut (STS 42, 51, 79), born in Quonset Point, Rhode Island
Jan 25 Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
Jan 25 Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British politician, journalist and human rights campaigner (Peter Tatchell Foundation), born in Melbourne, Australia
Jan 26 Mario Runco Jr., American astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77), born in the Bronx, New York
Jan 31 Rosanne Musgrave, English headmistress (Blackheath HS)
Jan 31 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter, born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (d. 1969)

Jan 4 Constantl Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65
Jan 5 Victor Alexander John Hope, Viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
Jan 8 Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant & dwarf stars), dies
Jan 8 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
Jan 11 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61
Jan 15 Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
Jan 22 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
Jan 23 Natalia Brassova, Russian noblewoman, wife of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, dies at 71
Jan 25 Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70
Jan 26 Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87
Jan 26 Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)