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List of 1952 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1952

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Date	Event
January 14, 1952	NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
January 26, 1952	Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
February 6, 1952	Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
February 15, 1952	King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
February 20, 1952	Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
February 21, 1952	The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
February 21, 1952	The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
February 26, 1952	Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
March 10, 1952	Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
March 20, 1952	The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
March 21, 1952	Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
April 8, 1952	U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
April 9, 1952	Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
April 11, 1952	Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
April 15, 1952	First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
April 21, 1952	Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
April 28, 1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
April 28, 1952	The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
April 28, 1952	The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
May 2, 1952	A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
May 3, 1952	Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
May 3, 1952	The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
May 7, 1952	The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
May 13, 1952	The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
June 13, 1952	Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
June 17, 1952	Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
June 21, 1952	The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
June 26, 1952	The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
June 29, 1952	The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.
July 3, 1952	The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
July 3, 1952	The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
July 7, 1952	The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
July 19, 1952	Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
July 21, 1952	The 7.3 Mw  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
July 23, 1952	General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
July 26, 1952	King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
August 11, 1952	Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
August 12, 1952	The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
August 15, 1952	A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
August 29, 1952	American experimental composer John Cage’s 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.
September 6, 1952	A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
September 8, 1952	The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
September 15, 1952	The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
October 3, 1952	The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.
October 8, 1952	The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
October 14, 1952	Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
October 17, 1952	Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
October 20, 1952	The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
November 1, 1952	Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
November 4, 1952	The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
November 14, 1952	The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
November 19, 1952	Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
November 25, 1952	Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK. It will become the longest continuously running play in history.
November 25, 1952	Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends in a Chinese victory. American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
November 29, 1952	U.S. 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 1, 1952	The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
December 5, 1952	Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
December 20, 1952	A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 87 of the 115 people on board.
December 24, 1952	First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
December 30, 1952	An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.