Events in History
Events 201 - 241 of 241
Event of Interest
Nov 1 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Edward Teller
Event of Interest
Nov 3 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
Clarence Birdseye
Election of Interest
Nov 4 Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
- 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 Spain joins UNESCO
- Nov 19 Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe
- Nov 20 George Axelrod's "Seven Year Itch" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Nov 20 Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
Joseph Stalin
- Nov 21 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
- Nov 22 As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
- Nov 25 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
- 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 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 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 Killer fogs begin in London, England; the term "Smog" is coined
- Dec 4 Walter P. Reuther chosen chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the US
- Dec 5 -8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
- Dec 6 Czech government tells Israeli ambassador that he is persona non grata
- Dec 8 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
- Dec 8 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
- Dec 8 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected president of Israel
- Dec 10 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
- Dec 12 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
- Dec 14 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
- Dec 15 Christine Jorgenson is the first known American to undergo a sex-change operation
- Dec 15 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
- Dec 19 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
- Dec 21 Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco
- Dec 22 French government of Pinay, resigns
- Dec 23 Alain Bombard arrives in Barbados after 65 days at sea proving his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive with almost no provisions, despite having lost 25 kg (65 lbs) in weight
- Dec 29 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
- Dec 30 Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
Birthdays in History
Birthdays 201 - 221 of 221
- Nov 17 Cyril Ramaphosa, South African activist and politician, ANC leader (2017-), born in Soweto, South Africa
- Nov 18 Peter Beattie, Australian politician
- Nov 20 John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player
- Nov 25 John Lynch, American politician current governor of New Hampshire
- Nov 27 James D Wetherbee, Lt Cmdr USN/astr (STS 32, 52, 63, 86), born in Flushing, New York
- Nov 27 Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
- Nov 30 Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
- Dec 2 Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
- Dec 3 Benny Hinn, American televangelist
- Dec 4 Ronald Michael Sega, PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Dec 6 Craig Newmark, American founder of craigslist
- Dec 7 Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
- Dec 8 Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
- Dec 11 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
- Dec 12 Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
- Dec 15 Julie Taymor, American director
- Dec 17 Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
- Dec 23 William Kristol, American political commentator
- Dec 27 Jay Hill, Canadian politician
- Dec 28 Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
- Dec 30 Larry Bartlett, photographic printer