1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1952 - Events. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1952 - February. February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...

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1952 - June. June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born British agent in World War II (b. 1915) 1952 - July. July 26 - Eva Peron, Argentine wife of Juan Peron (b. 1919) 1952 - September. September 29 - George Santayana, Spanish-born writer (b. 1863) September 30 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, American-born ...

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Baseball returned as a demonstration sport for the third time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The game played was actually a variant of the sport called Finnish baseball or "pesäpallo". The ceremonial first feed, or pitch, was thrown at 6 p.m. on 31 July by Lauri Pihkala, who had created the sport. The teams playing were the Finnish Baseball Federation and the Worker's Athletic Federation. In ...

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Austerity in Israel: From 1949 to 1959, the state of Israel was, to a varying extent, under a regime of austerity (צנע tsena), during which rationing and similar measures were enforced. Austerity in Israel - Rationale. Shortly after its establishment in 1948, the young state of Israel found itself lacking in both food and foreign currency. In three and half years, the Jewish population of Israel had doubled, inflated by nearly 700,000 immigrants. At the same time, the Arab villages, once major sup ...

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During the 1950s, a couple of relatively new developments changed the world: World War II had only been over for five years when the decade of the 50's began, and television was beginning to make a major impact internationally. In boxing, changes connected to these developments could be seen too, as boxers who fought at the 1940s conflict returned to their homes and many of them were back in the ring. Television producers were in love with sports, which provided the viewer with an opportunity to observe sporting events life, and boxing was n ...

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Men's Golf Grand Slam of golf results: May - The Masters - Sam Snead June - US Open - Julius Boros July - British Open - Bobby Locke August - PGA Championship - Jim Turnesa PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Julius Boros - $37,033 Women's Golf US Women's Open - Louise Suggs ...

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1952 in aviation - January. January 5 - Pan Am commences trans-atlantic freight services. 1952 in aviation - February. February 10 - Maj George A. Davis Jr is awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, after attacking a group of 12 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s that were about to bounce other US aircraft. He shot down two before being shot down himself. 1952 in aviation - May. May 1 - the IATA agrees on new "tourist c ...

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1952 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3) All-Star Game, July 8 at Shibe Park: National League, 3-2 (5 innings) 1952 in baseball - Other champions. Caribbean World Series: La Habana (Cuba) College World Series: Holy Cross Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Nankai Hawks (4-2) Little League World Series: ...

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On Wednesday morning 23 July 1952, a military coup occurred in Egypt, carried out by The "Free Officers" and led by General Muhammad Naguib, and that the armed forces were taking up posts in some of the corners and streets in Cairo. At 7:30 a.m., they heard a broadcast station issue the first communiqué of the revolution in the name of Gen. Muhammad Naguib to the Egyptian people that stated the justification for the revolution or the Blessed Movement. The voice everyone heard reading the message belonged to Free Officer and fut ...

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1 special election held due to death of Brien McMahon (D-CT). Interim Senator William A. Purtell was successfully elected to Connecticut's other Senate seat, and did not run for re-election in the special election. 2 special election held due to death of Virgil M. Chapman (D-KY) 3 special election held due to death of Kenneth S. Wherry (R-NE) ...

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The Revolution Command Council (RCC), made up of the previous 9-member command committee of the Free Officers in addition to five more members, including Mohamed Naguib, is formed. Ali Maher is asked to form a civilian government. Popular expectations for immediate reforms led to the workers' riots in Kafr Dawar on August 12, 1952, which resulted in two death sentences. Ali Maher resigns on 7 September following differences with the officers. Mohamed Naguib becomes prime minister. On 9 September, the Agrarian Reform Law is passed ...

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1952 in South Africa - March. 23 March - Zulu King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign 1952 in South Africa - April. 6 April - The African National Congress, South African Indian Congress and the Coloured People’s Congress launches the Defiance Campaign against apartheid 1952 in South Africa - May. 3 May - The first regular jet flight between South Africa and Britain is started with the arrival of a De Havilland ...

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1952 in rail transport - January events. January 13 - Union Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco is stalled in snow on Donner Pass. The train's passengers remain stranded in the train until January 16. 1952 in rail transport - July events. July 6 - The last tram (streetcar) runs in London, England. July 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hits just north of Tehachapi, California. Tunnels 3 through 8 are all damaged, and no traffic moves on the Southern Paci ...

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Top medal-collecting nations: (for the full table, see 1952 Summer Olympics medal count) (Host nation in bold.) ...

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January January 3 - Bristol Belvedere April April 15 - Boeing YB-52 June June 19 - Yak-120 prototype of Yakovlev Yak-25 July July 3 - Yak-24 twin engine tandem helicopter August August 6 - Boulton Paul P.120 August 16 - Bristol Britannia August 22 - Saunders-Ro ...

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List of religious leaders in 1952 - Catholic not in communion with Rome. Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites - Roman Maria Jakub Próchniewski (1945-1953) ...

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U.S. presidential election 1952 - Republican Party nomination. The fight for the Republican nomination was largely between General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as candidate of the party's more moderate eastern establishment (led by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the party's nominee in 1944 and 1948), and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the candidate of the more conservative party regulars in the Midwest. The primaries had been split fairly evenly between the two men, and the nomination came down to the wire, but ult ...

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High Noon is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #33 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin), and Best Music, Song (Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'), sung by Tex Ritter). It was nominated for Best Directo ...

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