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January 1952

Monday 14:

The Today show premieres on NBC.

Sunday 20:

Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.

Tuesday 22:

The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.

Thursday 24:

Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.

February 1952

Sunday 03:

The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.

Thursday 14:

1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway.

Thursday 21:

Churchill government in the UK abolishes Identity Cards to "set the people free".

Thursday 28:

End of 8th Winter Olympic Games in Oslo.

Friday 29:

The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.

March 1952

Saturday 08:

Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France

Monday 10:

Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba

Thursday 20:

The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

Friday 21:

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio

Thursday 27:

Sun Records begins operations.

April 1952

Tuesday 08:

In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.

Monday 21:

Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.

Monday 28:

Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.

May 1952

Saturday 03:

U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.

Wednesday 07:

The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

Monday 12:

Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.

Saturday 31:

Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.

June 1952

Friday 13:

Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

Saturday 14:

The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

July 1952

Thursday 03:

Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.

Sunday 20:

The 15th Olympic Games begin in Helsinki, Finland.

Wednesday 23:

The overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.

Friday 25:

Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

August 1952

Monday 11:

Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan

Tuesday 12:

Prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.

Saturday 23:

The Arab League goes into effect.

Wednesday 27:

Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.

Friday 29:

Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York.

September 1952

Monday 15:

United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.

Friday 19:

The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England

Tuesday 23:

Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".

October 1952

Friday 03:

United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

November 1952

Saturday 01:

The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.

Tuesday 04:

U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

Friday 14:

1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express

Tuesday 25:

Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).

Saturday 29:

Korean War: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

December 1952

Monday 01:

The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.

Thursday 04:

Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descends on London ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word).

Friday 05:

The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts.

Saturday 20:

United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87

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