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Events on the year of 1952 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1952 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet
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02 Jan 1952 "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
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03 Jan 1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
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03 Jan 1952 Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
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05 Jan 1952 Flying Enterprise sinks
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07 Jan 1952 French Plevin government falls
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08 Jan 1952 Jordan adopts constitution
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09 Jan 1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
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09 Jan 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
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09 Jan 1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
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10 Jan 1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des tor
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11 Jan 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
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12 Jan 1952 NFL Pro Bowl: N Conf beats A Conf 30-13
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12 Jan 1952 NFL Pro Bowl National Conference beats American Conference 30-13
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12 Jan 1952 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student
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14 Jan 1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
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14 Jan 1952 Rationing of coffee in the Netherlands ends
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14 Jan 1952 Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
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14 Jan 1952 NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
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16 Jan 1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
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16 Jan 1952 New Dutch bible translation finished
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19 Jan 1952 PGA approves allowing black participants
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19 Jan 1952 NFL takes control of New York Yanks
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20 Jan 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
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20 Jan 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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21 Jan 1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
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24 Jan 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
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24 Jan 1952 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly New York Yankees
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25 Jan 1952 Test debut of Richie Benaud, vs West Indies at the SCG
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26 Jan 1952 Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
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30 Jan 1952 Lehmer verifies 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
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30 Jan 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
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31 Jan 1952 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1
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31 Jan 1952 Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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01 Feb 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
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04 Feb 1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
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06 Feb 1952 England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
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06 Feb 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms 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.
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08 Feb 1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day, " debuts on NBC TV
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08 Feb 1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
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13 Feb 1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
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14 Feb 1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
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14 Feb 1952 6th Winter Olympics games opens in Oslo, Norway
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14 Feb 1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
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15 Feb 1952 King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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16 Feb 1952 Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33
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16 Feb 1952 Ian Craig makes New South Wales cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (New South Wales record)
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18 Feb 1952 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca wins
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19 Feb 1952 French offensive at Hanoi
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20 Feb 1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York City
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20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
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21 Feb 1952 The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
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21 Feb 1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
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21 Feb 1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
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21 Feb 1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
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21 Feb 1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
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24 Feb 1952 Betty MacKinnon and Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
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25 Feb 1952 6th Winter Olympics games close at Oslo, Norway
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26 Feb 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
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26 Feb 1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
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26 Feb 1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
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29 Feb 1952 The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
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29 Feb 1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title
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29 Feb 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy Great Britain
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29 Feb 1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & Paul Falk of Germany
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29 Feb 1952 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of France
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29 Feb 1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
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01 Mar 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
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01 Mar 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
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02 Mar 1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
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03 Mar 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
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08 Mar 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
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08 Mar 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
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09 Mar 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
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10 Mar 1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
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10 Mar 1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
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15 Mar 1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
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15 Mar 1952 In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
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15 Mar 1952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La R
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16 Mar 1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R
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16 Mar 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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18 Mar 1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
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18 Mar 1952 Communist offensive in Korea
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20 Mar 1952 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris, " H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win
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20 Mar 1952 US Senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
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20 Mar 1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
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20 Mar 1952 24th Academy Awards: "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
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20 Mar 1952 US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
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21 Mar 1952 "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances
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21 Mar 1952 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
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21 Mar 1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
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21 Mar 1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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21 Mar 1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths
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22 Mar 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
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23 Mar 1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
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24 Mar 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
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26 Mar 1952 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
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26 Mar 1952 F D
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27 Mar 1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
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27 Mar 1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
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28 Mar 1952 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
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30 Mar 1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter and King and I win
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30 Mar 1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
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01 Apr 1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
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03 Apr 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
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05 Apr 1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
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06 Apr 1952 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
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08 Apr 1952 President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
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08 Apr 1952 U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
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09 Apr 1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia
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09 Apr 1952 Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
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11 Apr 1952 The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
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12 Apr 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament
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12 Apr 1952 Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
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15 Apr 1952 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
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15 Apr 1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
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15 Apr 1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
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15 Apr 1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
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15 Apr 1952 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings sweep Montr
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16 Apr 1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
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19 Apr 1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
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21 Apr 1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
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21 Apr 1952 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
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21 Apr 1952 BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
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22 Apr 1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
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22 Apr 1952 Eug
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23 Apr 1952 Bob Cain of Browns and Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
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23 Apr 1952 Bob Cain of St Louis Browns & Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter
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23 Apr 1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only homerun
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23 Apr 1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
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25 Apr 1952 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
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25 Apr 1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
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25 Apr 1952 German "Country" Bathe-W
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26 Apr 1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp, " kills 176
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26 Apr 1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp", kills 176
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26 Apr 1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
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27 Apr 1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 performances
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28 Apr 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.
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28 Apr 1952 Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
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28 Apr 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
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28 Apr 1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
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28 Apr 1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
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28 Apr 1952 St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
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30 Apr 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
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30 Apr 1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
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01 May 1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
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01 May 1952 Mr Potato Head, introduced
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01 May 1952 TWA introduces tourist class
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02 May 1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
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02 May 1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of the Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
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02 May 1952 The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
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03 May 1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
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03 May 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
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03 May 1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
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03 May 1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
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03 May 1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
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04 May 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
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05 May 1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
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08 May 1952 "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
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08 May 1952 "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
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08 May 1952 Mad Magazine debuts
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10 May 1952 "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances
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12 May 1952 Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
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12 May 1952 Charlton Playground named in the Bronx
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13 May 1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
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13 May 1952 Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
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13 May 1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
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15 May 1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0
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15 May 1952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
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16 May 1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
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17 May 1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
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18 May 1952 Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
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21 May 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1
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21 May 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
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27 May 1952 European Defense Community forms
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28 May 1952 The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
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29 May 1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
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30 May 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
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30 May 1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres
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01 Jun 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
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01 Jun 1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
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02 Jun 1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
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02 Jun 1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
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03 Jun 1952 Romanian Premier Petru Groza chosen President
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05 Jun 1952 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs. Charles boxing
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05 Jun 1952 Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for hw boxing title
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07 Jun 1952 "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 performances
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07 Jun 1952 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4
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07 Jun 1952 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2
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10 Jun 1952 Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
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10 Jun 1952 President Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
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10 Jun 1952 St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
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12 Jun 1952 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
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12 Jun 1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX
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13 Jun 1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
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13 Jun 1952 Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
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14 Jun 1952 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
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14 Jun 1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
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14 Jun 1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
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14 Jun 1952 General strike in Tunisia
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14 Jun 1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
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14 Jun 1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
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14 Jun 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
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16 Jun 1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
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17 Jun 1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
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19 Jun 1952 Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
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19 Jun 1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host
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21 Jun 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.
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23 Jun 1952 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
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25 Jun 1952 "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 performances
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25 Jun 1952 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring Country Club - Louisville
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25 Jun 1952 Dutch Social Democratic Party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
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26 Jun 1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
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26 Jun 1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
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27 Jun 1952 Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
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29 Jun 1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
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30 Jun 1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
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30 Jun 1952 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
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02 Jul 1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
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02 Jul 1952 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
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03 Jul 1952 The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
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03 Jul 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.
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04 Jul 1952 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
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04 Jul 1952 Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
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05 Jul 1952 "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
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05 Jul 1952 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63)
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06 Jul 1952 Last tram ride in London
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07 Jul 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
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07 Jul 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.
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08 Jul 1952 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
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11 Jul 1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
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12 Jul 1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
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14 Jul 1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
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15 Jul 1952 Gerald D Lascelles (under English Princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
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15 Jul 1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
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17 Jul 1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh Premier
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18 Jul 1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
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19 Jul 1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
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19 Jul 1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
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19 Jul 1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
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19 Jul 1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
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19 Jul 1952 The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
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20 Jul 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
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20 Jul 1952 Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
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21 Jul 1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
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21 Jul 1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
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22 Jul 1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
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22 Jul 1952 Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
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23 Jul 1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
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23 Jul 1952 The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
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23 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
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24 Jul 1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
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24 Jul 1952 112
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25 Jul 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
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25 Jul 1952 The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
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25 Jul 1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
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26 Jul 1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
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26 Jul 1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
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26 Jul 1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
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27 Jul 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
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28 Jul 1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
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29 Jul 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
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30 Jul 1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
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03 Aug 1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
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06 Aug 1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
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08 Aug 1952 Syngman Ree re-elected President of South-Korea
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09 Aug 1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
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10 Aug 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
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11 Aug 1952 Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
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11 Aug 1952 Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
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12 Aug 1952 Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
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12 Aug 1952 The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
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15 Aug 1952 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
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15 Aug 1952 A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people.
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15 Aug 1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
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17 Aug 1952 "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
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17 Aug 1952 Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
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20 Aug 1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
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23 Aug 1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
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23 Aug 1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
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25 Aug 1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
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25 Aug 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
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26 Aug 1952 Fluoridation of SF water begins
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27 Aug 1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
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28 Aug 1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
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28 Aug 1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
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01 Sep 1952 Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
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01 Sep 1952 Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
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01 Sep 1952 The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
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02 Sep 1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
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06 Sep 1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
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06 Sep 1952 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
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06 Sep 1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
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07 Sep 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament
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07 Sep 1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government / becomes Premier
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07 Sep 1952 Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
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10 Sep 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
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11 Sep 1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
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12 Sep 1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
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13 Sep 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected President of Mexico
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15 Sep 1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
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15 Sep 1952 The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
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15 Sep 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
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17 Sep 1952 "I am an American Day" and"Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
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17 Sep 1952 "I am an American Day" & "Constituion Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
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19 Sep 1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
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20 Sep 1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1952 Dodgers clinch NL pennant
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23 Sep 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title
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23 Sep 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
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23 Sep 1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
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23 Sep 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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24 Sep 1952 Dutch Minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
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24 Sep 1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
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25 Sep 1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
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26 Sep 1952 Yanks clinch pennant #19
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29 Sep 1952 "Lights Out, " last airs on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1952 Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
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01 Oct 1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station - Portland, Oregon
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01 Oct 1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
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01 Oct 1952 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
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03 Oct 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
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03 Oct 1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, California
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03 Oct 1952 The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
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04 Oct 1952 "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
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05 Oct 1952 19th Congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
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05 Oct 1952 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
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07 Oct 1952 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
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07 Oct 1952 New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
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07 Oct 1952 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
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08 Oct 1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
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08 Oct 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea
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08 Oct 1952 The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
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12 Oct 1952 KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
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14 Oct 1952 "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
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14 Oct 1952 Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
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16 Oct 1952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
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18 Oct 1952 "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances
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18 Oct 1952 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
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19 Oct 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
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20 Oct 1952 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
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20 Oct 1952 Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
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21 Oct 1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
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24 Oct 1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
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25 Oct 1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
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30 Oct 1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
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31 Oct 1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
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01 Nov 1952 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
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01 Nov 1952 Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons.
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03 Nov 1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
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03 Nov 1952 Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
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04 Nov 1952 Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America
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04 Nov 1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
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04 Nov 1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
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10 Nov 1952 Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st Secretary General of UN
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12 Nov 1952 Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
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12 Nov 1952 White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
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13 Nov 1952 False fingernails 1st sold
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13 Nov 1952 KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Nov 1952 Greek general Papagos wins elections
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19 Nov 1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 km/h
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19 Nov 1952 Spain joins UNESCO
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20 Nov 1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
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20 Nov 1952 George Axelrods "7 Year Itch, " premieres in New York City
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20 Nov 1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
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21 Nov 1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
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21 Nov 1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
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24 Nov 1952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London
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25 Nov 1952 George Meany appointed as Chairman of AFL
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25 Nov 1952 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
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26 Nov 1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil, " premieres in Hollywood
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27 Nov 1952 KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Nov 1952 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
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29 Nov 1952 Korean War: 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.
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29 Nov 1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
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30 Nov 1952 Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism
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01 Dec 1952 The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
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02 Dec 1952 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
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02 Dec 1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
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03 Dec 1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
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04 Dec 1952 Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
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04 Dec 1952 Walter P Reuther chosen Chairman of CIO
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05 Dec 1952 Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
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07 Dec 1952 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
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08 Dec 1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
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08 Dec 1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
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08 Dec 1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
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10 Dec 1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
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10 Dec 1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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12 Dec 1952 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
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14 Dec 1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Dec 1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs Pakistan, Calcutta
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14 Dec 1952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
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15 Dec 1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
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15 Dec 1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
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15 Dec 1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Dec 1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
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18 Dec 1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president
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19 Dec 1952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
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19 Dec 1952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
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20 Dec 1952 A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
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20 Dec 1952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Dec 1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco
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21 Dec 1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Dec 1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
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22 Dec 1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York PA (IND) begins broadcasting
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28 Dec 1952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
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30 Dec 1952 Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as 1st year in 71 with no lynchings in US
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