1952 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 200 of 231

• Jun 14 General strike in Tunisia
• Jun 14 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)

• Jun 16 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
• Jun 17 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
• 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 26 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

• Jun 29 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn
• Jun 30 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
• 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 5 "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances


• Jul 6 Last tram ride in London
• Jul 7 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 14 Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary
• 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 25 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
• Aug 26 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
• Aug 28 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
• Aug 28 Yakov Malik succeeds Valerian Zorin as Soviet Foreign minister
• 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 General Naguib forms Egyptian government and becomes Premier

• Sep 13 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
• 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 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
• 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 5 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow

• Oct 8 Chinese offensive in Korea
• Oct 8 Harrow and Wealdstone, northwest London, 112 people killed in Britain's worst peace-time rail crash.
• 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 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 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 1st Test century 124* v India

• 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 10 Trygve Lie resigns as 1st Secretary General of the United Nations
• Nov 13 False fingernails 1st sold
• Nov 14 Greek General Alexander Papagos wins elections

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Birthdays in History

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 220

• Jun 16 George Papandreou, Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece (2009-11), born in St Paul, Minnesota
• Jun 18 Idriss Deby, Chadian politician & military officer (President of Chad, 1990–), born in Berdoba, Chad
• Jun 19 Robert Ainsworth, British MP
• Jun 20 Vikram Seth, Indian poet and novelist (A Suitable Boy), born in Calcutta, India
• Jun 21 Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director (Bee Train Production), born in Tokyo
• Jun 24 Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
• Jun 27 Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)), born in Taplejung, Nepal (d. 1993)
• Jun 30 Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician, born in Cefalonia, Greece
• Jul 2 Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
• Jul 4 Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician (31st President of Colombia), born in Medellín, Colombia
• Jul 5 David Dreier, American entrepreneur and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Kansas City, Missouri
• Jul 5 Terence T. Henricks, USAF colonel and astronaut (STS 44, 55, 70, 78), born in Bryan, Ohio
• Jul 6 Hilary Mantel, English novelist (Wolf Hall), born in Glossop, Derbyshire
• Jul 8 Anna Quindlen, American columnist
• Jul 10 Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician (Labour Party), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Jul 11 John Kettley, English weather forecaster
• Jul 12 Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer, born in Šabac, Serbia
• Jul 14 Joel Silver, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard), born in South Orange, New Jersey
• Jul 14 Franklin Graham, American evangelist
• Jul 15 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (Rep-R-Florida)
• Jul 15 Jill Long, (Rep-D-Indiana)
• Jul 15 Judy McGrath, American television executive
• Jul 16 Robert David Steele, American activist and former CIA officer, born in NYC, New York
• Jul 17 Robert R. McCammon, American sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk), born in Birmingham, Alabama
• Jul 19 Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
• Jul 19 Robert A. Ficano, American politician and Sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan, born in Detroit, Michigan
• Jul 19 John Griesheimer, American Republican politician, born in Saint Clair, Missouri
• Jul 21 John Barrasso [John Anthony Barrasso III], American politician, junior senator from Wyoming, born in Reading, Pennsylvania
• Jul 24 Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
• Jul 26 Scott David Cook, CEO (Intuit-Quicken), born in Glendale, California
• Jul 28 Maha Vajiralongkorn [Bodindradebayavarangkun], King of Thailand (2016 - Present), born in Bangkok, Thailand
• Jul 28 Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist (Final Fantasy), born in Shizuoka city, Japan
• Jul 31 Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
• Jul 31 João Barreiros, Portuguese writer (Um Dia com Júlia na Necrosfera), born in Portugal
• Aug 1 Zoran Đinđić, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (2001-03), born in Bosanski Šamac, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 2003)
• Aug 2 Paul David Crews, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in South Carolina
• Aug 3 Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
• Aug 3 Frank Schaeffer, American author (Crazy for God), born in Champéry, Switzerland
• Aug 4 Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician (Mayor of Budapest, 1990-2010), born in Budapest, Hungary
• Aug 5 Hun Sen, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia 1985-), born in Kampong Cham, Cambodia
• Aug 8 Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
• Aug 9 Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Aug 9 Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
• Aug 10 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
• Aug 10 Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist
• Aug 13 Herb Ritts, American fashion photographer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2002)
• Aug 13 Tom Marino, American politician (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 2011-), born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
• Aug 14 Mark C. Lee, American NASA astronaut (STS 30, 47, 64, 82, sk: 98), born in Viroqua, Wisconsin
• Aug 17 Kathryn C. Thornton, American astronaut (STS 33, 49, 61, 73), born in Montgomery, Alabama
• Aug 17 Thomas J Hennen, American astronaut (STS 44), born in Albany, Georgia
• Aug 17 Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber)
• Aug 18 Elayne Boosler, American comedienne (Broadway Baby, Party of One), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Aug 21 Jiří Paroubek, former Czech prime minister, born in Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Aug 24 Bob Corker, American politician (Senator from Tennessee), born in Orangeburg, South Carolina
• Aug 26 Will Shortz, American crossword editor
• Aug 27 Roger Stone, American political lobbyist, born in Norwalk, Connecticut
• Aug 28 Rita Dove, African-American poet (Thomas and Beulah), born in Akron, Ohio
• Aug 28 Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman (CEO - Porsche AG), born in Ahlen, Germany
• Aug 28 Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician (45th President of the National Assembly), born in Montréal, Québec
• Aug 29 Karen Hesse, American children's book writer (Out of the Dust), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Aug 31 Herbert Reul, German politician
• Sep 2 Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
• Sep 9 Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
• Sep 9 Lee M Morin, cmdr USN/astronaut, born in Manchester, New Hampshire
• Sep 10 Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher), born in New York City
• Sep 10 Vic Toews, Canadian politician, born in Filadelfia, Paraguay
• Sep 19 Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician (Member of the European Parliament), born in Ystad, Skåne County, Sweden
• Sep 21 Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
• Sep 22 Robert W Goodlatte, (Rep-R-Virginia)
• Sep 24 Joseph P. Kennedy II, American politician (Rep-D-Massachusetts 1987-99), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Sep 25 Bell Hooks [Gloria Jean Watkins], American author, feminist, scholar and social activist, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky
• Sep 27 Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40)
• Sep 27 Didier Dubois, French mathematician
• Sep 29 R A Hodges, archaeologist
• Sep 29 Max Sandlin, American politician
• Oct 2 George Meegan, British adventurer who walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska, born in London
• Oct 4 Nina Carter, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde), born in London, England
• Oct 6 Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer

• Oct 8 Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician (Leader of the Socialist Party), born in Oss, Netherlands
• Oct 13 Michael R. Clifford, American astronaut (STS 53, 59, 76), born in Norton AFB, California
• Oct 16 Christopher Cox, (Rep-R-California)
• Oct 18 Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
• Oct 20 Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut
• Oct 21 Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
• Oct 26 Andrew Motion, English poet (British Poet Laureate 1999-2009), born in London
• Oct 26 Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and leader of Hezbollah, born in Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon (d. 1992)
• Oct 29 Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

• Nov 3 Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor

• Nov 5 Vandana Shiva, Indian scholar and environmental activist, born in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Nov 7 David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multinational Force Iraq (2007-08), born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
• Nov 8 Christie Ann Hefner, American businesswoman, CEO of Playboy Enterprises (1988-2009) and daughter of Hugh Hefner, born in Chicago, Illinois
• Nov 9 Sherrod Brown, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio 1993-2007, Senate 2007-), born in Mansfield, Ohio
• Nov 12 Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
• Nov 13 Merrick Garland, American attorney and judge (US Attorney General 2021-), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Nov 16 Robin McKinley, American writer (The Hero and the Crown), born in Warren, Ohio
• Nov 16 Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist (Biblioteca Marciana), born in Venice, Italy
• Nov 16 Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer (Nintendo), born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan

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