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The Headlines and Key Facts of 1952 On the National Scene  1952 Agatha Christie publishes They Do It with Mirrors They Do It With Mirrors is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the... Read more  Mainline is First Produced The was a available from 1952 to 1956. It was the base model below the Customline and the Fairlane. There were two major versions... Read more  1952 is First Produced The Ford line of was again refreshed for 1952, although remaining similar to the all- new 1949 Fords. This time, curved one-piece windshield... Read more  1952 Ford Country is First Produced The was a full-size built by the from 1952 until 1974. It was based on the Ford full-size car... Read more  1952 The Mau Mau Uprising Begins By 1950, mounting frustration over land distribution and political inequality in Kenya had led to the formation of the Mau Mau movement of civil... Read more  1952 The American Cancer Society Founds "Reach to Recovery" to Promote Breast Cancer Treatment and Advocacy Although doctors have been fighting breast cancer for centuries, it was not until the 20th century that movements to increase breast cancer... Read more  1952 Coretta Scott Meets Martin Luther King Jr. I always believed that there was a purpose for my life, and that I had to seek that purpose, and that if I discovered that purpose, then I believed... Read more  1952 OXO, Video Game Using a Graphical Display OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by Alexander S. Douglas... Read more  1952 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader published The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950, it was published in 1952 as the third book of The... Read more  1952 "Othello" Is Released Othello is a 1952 drama based on the Shakespearean play, made by Productions Inc. and Les Marceau and distributed by United... Read more  1952 Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo open first black legal firm in South By 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first black legal firm in the country, and Mandela was both Transvaal president of the ANC and deputy... Read more  1952 Malcolm Little changes surname to "X" In 1952, after his release from prison, Little visited Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Illinois. Then, like many members of the Nation of Islam, he... Read more  1952 Lotus Cars is Founded Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. The company designs and builds race and... Read more  1952 Kellogg's Sugar Smacks Introduced Honey Smacks is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's. In a 2008 comparison of the nutritional value of 27 cereals, U.S.... Read more  1952 Kellogg's Frosted Flakes Introduced Frosted Flakes is a cereal first introduced by Kellogg's. consisting of corn flakes "frosted" or coated with sugar. The "Frosted Flakes" name is... Read more  1952 'Invisible Man' is Published Invisible Man is a remarkable first novel that gives 38-year-old Ralph Ellison a claim to being the best of U.S. Negro writers.*It makes him, for... Read more  1952 is First Produced The Ford Ranch Wagon was a station wagon built by Ford Motor Company from 1952 to 1977. The Ranch Wagon was a full-size model, except in 1963 and... Read more

News Throughout the Year

 Jan 3 1952 Robert Byrd Elected as a Member of the United States House of Representatives for 's 6th Congressional District Prior to his time in the Senate, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1952-1958, and also served in the West Virginia... Read more  Jan 10 1952 "The Greatest Show On Earth" Is Released The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated... Read more  Jan 22 1952 American Airlines Flight 6780 Crashes Flight 6780 originated at Buffalo, , for Newark, New Jersey, with stops scheduled at Rochester, New York, and Syracuse, New York. The first... Read more  Jan 23 1952 "Cry, The Beloved Country" Is Released Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1951 drama film directed by Zoltan Korda. Based on the novel of the same name by , it stars Canada Lee and... Read more  Feb 1952 Agatha Christie publishes Mrs McGinty's Dead Poirot, disillusioned by the “senseless cruel brutality” of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs. McGinty, an old woman... Read more  Feb 1952 "" Is Released The Marrying Kind (1952) is a film directed by , starring Aldo Ray and . Other cast members include John Alexander,... Read more  Feb 6 1952 A Local Puerto Rican Constitution Is Approved A local constitution was approved by a Constitutional Convention on February 6, 1952, ratified by the U.S. Congress, approved by President Truman... Read more  Feb 14 1952 to Feb 25 1952 VI Olympic Winter Games Held in Oslo, Norway The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1952 in Oslo,... Read more  Feb 20 1952 "The African Queen" Is Released The African Queen is an American 1951 drama film adapted from the 1935 novel by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced... Read more  Mar 4 1952 Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis Get Married During her career as an actress, Nancy Davis dated actors in Hollywood; she later called Clark Gable, whom she dated briefly, the nicest of the... Read more  Mar 10 1952 Joseph Stalin Drafts The 'Stalin Note' In a 1952 exchange of notes between the Soviet Union and the occupation powers, Stalin proposed new negotiations for a peace treaty in... Read more  Mar 20 1952 24th The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951. The single film which came out with the largest number of honors... Read more  Mar 26 1952 Kansas Beats St. John's in Final Four The 1952 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 16 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of... Read more  Mar 27 1952 "Singin' In The Rain" Is Released Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring , Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley... Read more  Apr 3 1952 to Apr 6 1952 Sam Snead wins the 16th Masters Tournament Battling strong winds the final two days, Sam Snead won his second Masters title, this one by four strokes over Jack Burke. Ben Hogan hosted the... Read more  Apr 15 1952 Detroit Red Wings win Stanley Cup The 1952 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Canadiens in the first of the four... Read more  Apr 28 1952 Pan Am's Clipper Good Hope Crashes, Killing 50 Flight 202 originated at Buenos Aires, destination New York, with en route stops scheduled at Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Port... Read more  May 9 1952 "Forbidden Games" Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits), is a 1952 French language film directed by and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux... Read more  Jun 26 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is released Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered... Read more  Jun 28 1952 Ronald Reagan Appears as Grover Cleveland Alexander in "The Winning Team" In 1908, in rural Nebraska, telephone linemen Grover Cleveland Alexander is saving to buy a farm, so that he and sweetheart Aimee Arrants can... Read more  Jun 28 1952 American Airlines Flight 910 Collides with a Single Engine Temco Swift American Flight 910 took off from San Francisco at 23:05 for a flight to Dallas. At 06:56 the following morning, a Temco Swift airplane (N3858K, cn... Read more  Jul 19 1952 to Aug 3 1952 Games of the XV Olympiad Held in Helsinki, Finland The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in... Read more  Jul 21 1952 "The Quiet Man" Is Released The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring , Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry... Read more  Jul 30 1952 Nelson Mandela was arrested and convicted of contravening the Suppression of Communism Act In 1949, the Programme of Action was written by the ANCYL and adopted by the ANC which advocated boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience and... Read more  Aug 6 1952 "The Big Sky" Is Released The Big Sky is a 1952 Western film directed by , based on the novel of the same name. The cast includes , Arthur Hunnicutt,... Read more  Aug 7 1952 Malcolm X is paroled and released from prison On February 27, Little began serving his sentence at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown. While in prison, Little earned the nickname of... Read more  Aug 18 1952 Patrick Wayne Swayze is born Patrick Wayne Swayze (pronounced /ˈsweɪziː/; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was... Read more  Sep 8 1952 'Old Man and the Sea' Is Published In September of 1952 The Old Man and the Sea appeared in Life magazine, selling over 5 million copies in a flash. The next week Scribners rolled... Read more  Sep 12 1952 Flatwoods Monster In modern police parlance a long-unsolved homicide or other crime may be known as a "cold case," a term we might borrow for such paranormal... Read more  Sep 12 1952 Neil Peart is born Neil Peart (pronounced /ˈpɪərt/) OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer and lyricist for the rock band... Read more  Sep 23 1952 Delivers his 'Checkers' Speech The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard... Read more  Sep 25 1952 Christopher Reeve is Born Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He achieved... Read more  Oct 1 1952 to Oct 7 1952 1952 The 1952 World Series featured the three-time defending champion beating the Dodgers in seven games. The Yankees won... Read more  Oct 3 1952 8:00AM United Kindgom tests its first atomic bomb to become the world's third nuclear power, code named Operation Hurricane Operation Hurricane was the test of the first British atomic device on 3 October 1952. A plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon... Read more  Oct 7 1952 Vladimir Putin is Born Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg, Russia), to parents... Read more  Oct 8 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash The hope that 1952 would prove to be a good year from the point of view of train accident casualties has been extinguished by the disaster at... Read more  Oct 9 1952 "Ikiru" Is Released Ikiru (生きる, "To Live"?) is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by . The film examines the struggles of a Tokyo bureaucrat... Read more  Oct 14 1952 to Nov 25 1952 Battle of Triangle Hill The Battle of Triangle Hill, also known as Operation Showdown or the Shangganling Campaign (simplified Chinese: 上甘岭战役; pinyin: Shànggānlǐng... Read more  Oct 16 1952 "Limelight" (film) is Released Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring , co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster... Read more  Oct 21 1952 Patricia Ann Reagan is Born Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan on October 21, 1952 in , California) is the daughter of former President of the United States... Read more  Nov 1952 John F. Kennedy is Elected to the U.S. Senate When he returned home, Jack was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his leadership and courage. With the war finally coming to an end, it... Read more  Dec 1952 the Bad And The Beautiful The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is a MGM melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana... Read more  Dec 2 1952 Billy Vessels Wins Heisman Trophy A great star on a star-studded Sooner team, Vessels scored 18 touchdowns, gained over 1,000 yards rushing and caught eight passes for 200 yards. In... Read more  Dec 5 1952 The Great Smog of London The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London in December 1952. A period of cold weather combined with... Read more  Dec 23 1952 "Moulin Rouge" Is Released Moulin Rouge (1952) is a film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by .... Read more  Dec 24 1952 "Come Back, Little Sheba" Is Released Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 drama film made by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young... Read more

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