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- Jul 16 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
- Jul 16 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
Catcher in Rye
Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company
- Jul 17 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles
Jul 18 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 7 rounds, becoming at age 37 the then oldest world heavyweight champion, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Jul 18 Uruguay accepts its constitution
- Jul 20 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem
- Jul 20 Talal bin Abdullah (42) is coronated as King of Jordan, after the assassination of his father
Event of Interest
Jul 21 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
Alice In Wonderland
Jul 28 Walt Disney releases animated musical film "Alice In Wonderland", featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O'Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway and songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard
- Jul 31 Japan Airlines is established
Ben-Gurion Wins Election
Aug 1 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
- Aug 3 William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA
- Aug 5 Uprising by Moluccan soldiers from Indonesia at Ambonezen Camp, Netherlands
- Aug 6 The National Museum of Racing opens in Congress Park at Saratoga Springs, N.Y
- Aug 6 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
- Aug 7 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
- Aug 7 US Viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
- Aug 9 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
- Aug 11 First televised baseball game in colour on WCBS in New York City; Boston Braves beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 8-1
- Aug 11 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL), 38-6 in Ottawa
- Aug 11 NY Giants lose 4-0 to Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC to go 13½ games behind Brooklyn Dodgers; go on to win NL pennant with 98-59-0 record
- Aug 13 Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
A Place in the Sun
Aug 14 "A Place in the Sun", film adptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", directed by George Stevens, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters premieres in Los Angeles, California; wins 6 Academy Awards, including Best Director, 1952
- Aug 17 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
- Aug 17 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
Sports History
Aug 19 Bill Veeck (St. Louis Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" little person, to pinch-hit; he walked on four pitches.
Venice Film Festival
Aug 20 12th Venice Film Festival: "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion
- Aug 22 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
- Aug 24 Bill Veeck's MLB St. Louis Browns hold "Grandstand Manager's Day" - coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on strategy options; Browns defeat visiting A's, 5-3
- Aug 25 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
- Aug 26 Dutch professor Jacob Jongbloed demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
An American In Paris
Aug 26 Film "An American In Paris" with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron premieres in London (Academy Awards Best Picture, 1952)
- Aug 28 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
- Aug 28 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game winning streak
- Aug 30 US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
- Aug 31 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
- Sep 1 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
- Sep 1 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
- Sep 2 Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
- Sep 3 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
- Sep 4 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman
- Sep 4 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
Sep 4 US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
- Sep 8 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco
- Sep 9 1st broadcast of soap opera "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
- Sep 10 "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
- Sep 10 British begin economic boycott of Iran
Florence Chadwick Swims English Channel
Sep 11 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes.
The Rake's Progress
Sep 11 Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress", with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
- Sep 13 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
- Sep 14 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
- Sep 15 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
- Sep 15 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
- Sep 16 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players
- Sep 17 Romanian bishop A. Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sep 18 "A Streetcar Named Desire", film directed by Elia Kazan based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theater, NYC
- Sep 18 "The Day the Earth Stood Still", science fiction film directed by Robert Wise, and starring Michael Rennie, opens
- Sep 19 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
- Sep 19 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
- Sep 20 1st North Pole jet crossing
- Sep 20 MLB owners elect National League President Ford Frick as 3rd Baseball Commissioner for a 7-year term at a then massive $65,000 per annum
- Sep 20 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
Sports History
Sep 21 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
Yankees Clinch Pennant
Sep 28 New York's Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951, an 8-0 home victory over Boston Red Sox; Yankees clinch pennant #18
- Sep 28 Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL record 554 yards
- Sep 29 American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovers Ananke, 12th moon of Jupiter from Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles County, California
- Sep 29 CBS broadcasts 1st football game in color, University of California against the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia
- Sep 29 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
- Oct 1 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson (US ambassador to Denmark)
- Oct 1 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black US military unit, deactivated
- Oct 2 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
- Oct 3 CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight; Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints American Carl 'Bobo' Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium
- Oct 3 Shot Heard 'Round the World': Bobby Thomson hits 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers, bottom 9th inning, 1 out, to give New York Giants dramatic 5-4 playoff win and NL pennant at the Polo Grounds
The Honeymooners
Oct 5 Jackie Gleason debuts the character of bus-driver Ralph Kramden on 1st "The Honeymooners" skit (Cavalcade of Stars)
Stalin's Atomic Bomb
Oct 6 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
- Oct 7 David Ben-Gurion forms 3rd Israeli government
- Oct 14 NFL Detroit Lions Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs Los Angeles Rams
- Oct 14 Organization of Central American States forms
I Love Lucy
Oct 15 "I Love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, debuts on CBS
Oral Contraceptive
Oct 15 First synthesis of an oral contraceptive (norethindrone) made by Luis E. Miramontes under direction of Carl Djerassi and George Rosenkranz at Mexican drug company Syntex
- Oct 16 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated by Said Akbar in Rawalpindi
- Oct 17 Egyptian army fires on British troops
- Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test
- Oct 19 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
- Oct 20 The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Oct 22 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
- Oct 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Rosalind Franklin
Oct 23 English chemist Rosalind Franklin first identifies the two types of carbon produced by temperature, in paper published by the Royal Society [1]
Marciano TKOs Louis
Oct 26 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano defeats former champion Joe Louis by TKO in the 8th round at Madison Square Garden
Churchill Re-elected PM
Oct 26 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76
F1 World Champion
Oct 28 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina wins Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by taking out the Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes in an Alpha Romeo; wins by 6 points from Alberto Ascari of Italy
Sports History
Nov 1 Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella wins first of his 3 National League MVP awards
- Nov 1 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
- Nov 1 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico
- Nov 4 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
- Nov 4 Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
- Nov 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 7 Constitution of Jordan passes
MVP Yogi Berra
Nov 8 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
Lefty O'Doul's All-Stars
Nov 13 Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)
- Nov 15 NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
- Nov 17 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system
- Nov 18 "See it Now" premieres on TV
- Nov 18 British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
- Nov 18 Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
- Nov 19 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
- Nov 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 20 Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
- Nov 24 British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
- Nov 25 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
- Nov 25 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
- Nov 25 Cleveland halfback Dub Jones ties the NFL record for most touchdowns in a game crossing for 6 in Browns 42-21 win v Chicago Bears at Cleveland Stadium
- Nov 25 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
- Nov 27 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico
- Nov 27 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea
I am a Camera
Nov 28 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC
Billy Budd
Dec 1 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
- Dec 1 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
Ray Lindwall
Dec 1 Legendary Australian cricket fast bowler Ray Lindwall takes his 100th Test wicket when he bowls West Indian spinner Sonny Ramadhin in the 2nd Test in Sydney; Australia wins by 7 wickets
Don Hutson
Dec 2 Future Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Hutson has his #14 jersey retired by the Green Bay Packers; first number retired in franchise history
- Dec 2 Philadelphia Eagles set NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing in 35-21 win over Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium
The Pied Piper
Dec 4 Aaron Copland's and Jerome Robbins' ballet "The Pied Piper" premieres in New York City
- Dec 4 Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government
- Dec 4 Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, killing 500 people
- Dec 8 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
- Dec 9 West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
- Dec 11 "The Wild Side of Life" single recorded by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year, 1952)
- Dec 11 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball
- Dec 16 NBC premiere of "Dragnet" in black and white
- Dec 17 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
- Dec 19 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
- Dec 20 Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Dec 21 Pioneering telenovela "Sua Vida Me Pertence" premieres in Brazil
- Dec 22 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
- Dec 23 Last Belgian communities get electricity
- Dec 23 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns, 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game
- Dec 24 1st opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
- Dec 24 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
- Dec 25 West Indies wrap up 6 wicket defeat of Australia on first Christmas Day of Test cricket, the 3rd day of 3rd Test at the Adelaide Oval
"The African Queen"
Dec 26 "The African Queen", directed by John Huston and based on the 1935 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is released in LA, California (Academy Awards Best Actor 1952)
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