Notable Historical Events - 1952
1952 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet |
Jan 2 |
"Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances |
Jan 3 |
"Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 3 |
Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38 |
Jan 5 |
Flying Enterprise sinks |
Jan 7 |
French Plevin government falls |
Jan 8 |
Jordan adopts constitution |
Jan 9 |
Belgian Pholien government resigns |
Jan 9 |
Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 9 |
Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty |
Jan 10 |
Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris |
Jan 11 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore |
Jan 12 |
NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13 |
Jan 12 |
University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student |
Jan 14 |
"Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV |
Jan 14 |
Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends |
Jan 14 |
Snowstorm in Sierra Nevada kills 26 |
Jan 16 |
New Dutch bible translation finished |
Jan 16 |
US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary |
Jan 19 |
NFL takes control of NY Yanks |
Jan 19 |
PGA approves allowing black participants |
Jan 20 |
British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone |
Jan 20 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 21 |
Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
Jan 24 |
1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks |
Jan 24 |
Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base |
Jan 24 |
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. |
Jan 25 |
Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG |
Jan 30 |
Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime # |
Jan 30 |
Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres |
Jan 31 |
Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries |
Jan 31 |
Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 1 |
General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
Feb 1 |
SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC |
Feb 2 |
B. B. King's "3 O'Clock Blues" hits #1 on the US Billboard's R&B hit parade to become his first national hit |
Feb 4 |
1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY) |
Feb 6 |
Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne |
Feb 8 |
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV |
Feb 8 |
Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom |
Feb 13 |
Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win |
Feb 14 |
6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway |
Feb 15 |
King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. |
Feb 16 |
Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33 |
Feb 16 |
Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record) |
Feb 18 |
4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca win |
Feb 19 |
French offensive at Hanoi |
Feb 20 |
"African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC |
Feb 20 |
1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) |
Feb 21 |
Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) |
Feb 21 |
Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition |
Feb 24 |
Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament |
Feb 25 |
6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway |
Feb 26 |
Neth-Indonesian Unity conference |
Feb 26 |
PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
Feb 29 |
Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy GRB |
Feb 29 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & Paul Falk of GER |
Feb 29 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of FRA |
Feb 29 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA |
Feb 29 |
The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. |
Mar 1 |
Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns |
Mar 1 |
Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
Mar 2 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
Mar 3 |
Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution |
Mar 5 |
Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London |
Mar 8 |
Antoine Pinay forms French government |
Mar 9 |
Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title |
Mar 10 |
Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
Mar 15 |
"2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs |
Mar 15 |
Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean |
Mar 16 |
1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record) |
Mar 16 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 18 |
1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila) |
Mar 18 |
Communist offensive in Korea |
Mar 20 |
24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win |
Mar 20 |
Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan by US Senate |
Mar 21 |
"3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs |
Mar 21 |
-22] Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths |
Mar 21 |
31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US |
Mar 21 |
Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever |
Mar 22 |
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 |
Mar 23 |
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 |
Mar 24 |
Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
Mar 26 |
14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63 |
Mar 26 |
F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" premieres in Munich |
Mar 27 |
Failed assassination attempt of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer |
Mar 27 |
Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records |
Mar 27 |
"Singin' in the Rain", a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released |
Mar 28 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
Mar 28 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Mar 30 |
6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win |
Mar 30 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open |
Apr 1 |
Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow |
Apr 1 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 3 |
Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress |
Apr 5 |
Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title |
Apr 6 |
16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286 |
Apr 8 |
US President Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike |
Apr 9 |
Popular uprising in Bolivia |
Apr 9 |
Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines |
Apr 11 |
The Battle of Nanri island takes place. |
Apr 12 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament |
Apr 12 |
Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government |
Apr 15 |
1st B-52 prototype test flight |
Apr 15 |
Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card |
Apr 15 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games |
Apr 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 15 |
The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress |
Apr 16 |
"4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances |
Apr 19 |
56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53 |
Apr 21 |
BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) |
Apr 21 |
Secretaryies' Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated. |
Apr 22 |
1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada |
Apr 22 |
Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises" premieres in NYC |
Apr 23 |
Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter |
Apr 23 |
NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only HR |
Apr 23 |
Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed |
Apr 25 |
6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 25 |
American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter |
Apr 25 |
German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms |
Apr 26 |
Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman |
Apr 26 |
US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp, kills 176 |
Apr 27 |
"4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 perfs |
Apr 28 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
Apr 28 |
St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan |
Apr 28 |
WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect |
Apr 28 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO. |
Apr 30 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open |
Apr 30 |
Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television |
May 1 |
US Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada |
May 1 |
Mr Potato Head introduced |
May 1 |
TWA introduces tourist class |
May 2 |
1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music" |
May 2 |
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet |
May 2 |
Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers |
May 3 |
"Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances |
May 3 |
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
May 3 |
78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 |
May 4 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) |
May 5 |
Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base |
May 7 |
The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer. |
May 8 |
"Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances |
May 8 |
"Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances |
May 8 |
Mad Magazine debuts |
May 10 |
"Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances |
May 12 |
Charlton Playground named in Bronx |
May 12 |
Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. |
May 13 |
Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings |
May 13 |
Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India |
May 13 |
The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. |
May 15 |
Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0 |
May 15 |
Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
May 16 |
"New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances |
May 17 |
78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
May 18 |
Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC |
May 21 |
Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1 |
May 21 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal |
May 27 |
European Defense Community forms |
May 28 |
Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America. |
May 28 |
The women of Greece are given the right to vote. |
May 29 |
2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends |
May 30 |
Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves |
May 30 |
Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Troy Ruttman wins in 3:52:41.930 (207.480 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament |
Jun 1 |
Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index |
Jun 2 |
650,000 metal workers go on strike in US |
Jun 2 |
Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette |
Jun 3 |
Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
Jun 5 |
1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing |
Jun 5 |
Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley |
Jun 5 |
Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title |
Jun 7 |
"3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 perfs |
Jun 7 |
7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4 |
Jun 7 |
84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2 |
Jun 8 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open |
Jun 10 |
Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
Jun 10 |
Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry |
Jun 10 |
St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby |
Jun 12 |
USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid |
Jun 13 |
Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 |
Jun 14 |
52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas |
Jun 14 |
Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings |
Jun 14 |
General strike in Tunisia |
Jun 14 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) |
Jun 14 |
Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus) |
Jun 14 |
Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss |
Jun 16 |
Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down |
Jun 17 |
2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium |
Jun 19 |
"I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host |
Jun 19 |
Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0 |
Jun 21 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. |
Jun 23 |
US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea |
Jun 25 |
"Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs |
Jun 25 |
34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville |
Jun 25 |
Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election |
Jun 26 |
Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%) |
Jun 26 |
Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
Jun 29 |
USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn |
Jun 29 |
7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs |
Jun 30 |
"Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV |
Jun 30 |
Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government |
Jul 2 |
Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam |
Jul 3 |
Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress |
Jul 4 |
66th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (4-6 6-2 6-3 6-2) |
Jul 4 |
Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted |
Jul 5 |
"Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances |
Jul 5 |
59th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (7-5 6-3) |
Jul 6 |
Last tram ride in London |
Jul 7 |
SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 |
Jul 8 |
19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila |
Jul 11 |
Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate |
Jul 12 |
East German SED decides to form German DR army |
Jul 14 |
SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward) |
Jul 15 |
1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins |
Jul 17 |
Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier |
Jul 18 |
KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 19 |
"Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs |
Jul 19 |
15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland |
Jul 19 |
Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford |
Jul 19 |
India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day |
Jul 20 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) |
Jul 20 |
Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France |
Jul 21 |
7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed |
Jul 21 |
Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns |
Jul 22 |
Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution |
Jul 23 |
General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day) |
Jul 24 |
112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) |
Jul 24 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) |
Jul 24 |
US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike |
Jul 25 |
Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day) |
Jul 26 |
King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] |
Jul 26 |
Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer |
Jul 27 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) |
Jul 28 |
Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell as Cincinnati Reds manager |
Jul 29 |
1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet |
Jul 30 |
Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid |
Aug 3 |
15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland |
Aug 4 |
Gambling boss Theodore Roe is murdered by the crew of Sam Giancana |
Aug 6 |
Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout |
Aug 8 |
Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
Aug 9 |
General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium |
Aug 10 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament |
Aug 11 |
Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan |
Aug 12 |
Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan |
Aug 14 |
Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary |
Aug 15 |
19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316) |
Aug 15 |
9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34 |
Aug 17 |
"Fallout" 1st used (NY Times) |
Aug 17 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
Aug 20 |
Stalin meets Chou Enlai |
Aug 22 |
The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. |
Aug 23 |
Arab League security pact goes into effect |
Aug 23 |
Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing |
Aug 25 |
Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0 |
Aug 25 |
Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth |
Aug 26 |
Fluoridation of SF water begins |
Aug 27 |
Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2) |
Aug 28 |
German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments |
Aug 28 |
Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister |
Sep 1 |
Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney |
Sep 1 |
Willem Drees forms new Dutch government |
Sep 2 |
Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery |
Sep 5 |
General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile |
Sep 6 |
Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
Sep 7 |
66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75) |
Sep 7 |
72nd US Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (6-1 6-2 6-3) |
Sep 7 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament |
Sep 7 |
General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier |
Sep 7 |
Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn) |
Sep 7 |
Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters |
Sep 7 |
NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks |
Sep 8 |
Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & the Sea" published |
Sep 10 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open |
Sep 11 |
West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
Sep 12 |
Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London |
Sep 13 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
Sep 15 |
Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee |
Sep 15 |
European Parliament forms in Strasbourg |
Sep 15 |
UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia |
Sep 17 |
"I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" |
Sep 19 |
The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. |
Sep 20 |
KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event |
Sep 23 |
Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
Sep 23 |
Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech |
Sep 23 |
Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 24 |
Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death |
Sep 24 |
Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 |
Sep 25 |
Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game |
Sep 26 |
Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2 |
Sep 29 |
"Lights Out" last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance |
Oct 1 |
1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or |
Oct 1 |
Liberal Party wins Japanese elections |
Oct 1 |
Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) |
Oct 3 |
1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Island in Australia |
Oct 3 |
1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca |
Oct 4 |
"Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs |
Oct 5 |
19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow |
Oct 5 |
6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit |
Oct 6 |
Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running) |
Oct 7 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series |
Oct 7 |
First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) |
Oct 7 |
Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins |
Oct 8 |
Chinese offensive in Korea |
Oct 8 |
Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. |
Oct 12 |
Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons |
Oct 12 |
KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 14 |
"Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Oct 15 |
Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo" premieres in NYC |
Oct 16 |
Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi |
Oct 16 |
Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens |
Oct 18 |
"Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
Oct 18 |
Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash |
Oct 19 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament |
Oct 19 |
Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive |
Oct 20 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya |
Oct 21 |
Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian) |
Oct 24 |
Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria |
Oct 25 |
First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck" |
Oct 25 |
French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam |
Oct 25 |
Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India |
Oct 26 |
Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India |
Oct 27 |
"My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs |
Oct 28 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open |
Oct 30 |
Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas |
Oct 31 |
1st thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands |
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 |
Nov 3 |
Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas |
Nov 3 |
Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel |
Nov 4 |
Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America |
Nov 4 |
General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
Nov 6 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland" premieres |
Nov 10 |
Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN |
Nov 12 |
Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP |
Nov 12 |
White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape |
Nov 13 |
False fingernails 1st sold |
Nov 13 |
KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 14 |
Greek general Alexander Papagos wins elections |
Nov 14 |
First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. |
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 20 |
Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP |
Nov 20 |
George Axelrod's "Seven Year Itch" premieres in NYC |
Nov 20 |
Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. |
Nov 21 |
1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced |
Nov 21 |
Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 22 |
As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 25 |
George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL |
Nov 25 |
Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23 |
Nov 26 |
1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood |
Nov 27 |
KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 29 |
40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11 |
Nov 29 |
US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war |
Nov 30 |
Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism |
Dec 1 |
The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation. |
Dec 2 |
18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB) |
Dec 2 |
1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo) |
Dec 3 |
1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
Dec 3 |
Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela |
Dec 4 |
Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word |
Dec 4 |
Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO |
Dec 5 |
-8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die |
Dec 6 |
Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata |
Dec 7 |
KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
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 pres of Israel |
Dec 10 |
Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
Dec 10 |
WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 12 |
Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team |
Dec 14 |
KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 14 |
R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta |
Dec 14 |
Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die |
Dec 15 |
"Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances |
Dec 15 |
Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
Dec 15 |
KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 15 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
Dec 18 |
Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleve Indians president |
Dec 19 |
Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker" |
Dec 20 |
KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 21 |
Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
Dec 21 |
WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 22 |
French government of Pinay, resigns |
Dec 22 |
WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
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 28 |
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game |
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 |
Dec 31 |
41st Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (4-1) |
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