1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year beginning on a Tuesday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• In the United States, the scientist Jonas Salk produces the first vaccine against poliomyelitis.
• 2 January: The German Democratic Republic refuses to have a UN commission prepare the organization of free elections in its territory.
• January 3: In the Turkish province of Erzurum there is an earthquake of 5.8 that leaves 40 dead.
• 4 January: Che Guevara and Alberto Granado begin their journey through America
• January 5th: in Paris it is Waiting for Godot, play of the theater of the absurd of Samuel Beckett.
• January 12: The Televicentro In Mexico Where it is Televisa Chapultepec
• January 19: Colombia enters the Korean War in favor of the US. U.S.

February

• 1 February: in Spain the film is released The girl of sale, directed by Ramón Torrado and starring Lola Flores and Manolo Caracol.
• 1 February: in Milan (Italy), Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo publish the Manifesto of nuclear painting.
• 1 February: In New York, the UN General Assembly condemns the Soviet Union for violating the Chinese-Soviet friendship treaty, signed in 1945.
• 6 February: In the United Kingdom, Isabel II ascends to the throne as her father George VI died.
• 7 February: in the USA. U.S. President Harry S. Truman makes statements to the press against Franco's dictatorship's intolerance of religion and expression.
• 15 February: In Spain a bill on electrification and industrialization of the province of Badajoz is decreed.
• 16 February: Greece and Turkey officially join NATO.
• 19 February: in Argentina, democratic president Juan Domingo Perón proclaims the need to rapidly increase agricultural and mining production in Argentina and reduce meat consumption to increase foreign exchange reserves.
• 21 February: In Daca, East Pakistan, the Pakistani police murder dozens of students and political activists who claimed equality in their mother tongue, the Bengali.
• February 21: In the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill decrees the disappearance of the identity document.
• 23 February: In the framework of the arms race, NATO approves a plan to re-arm more than $30 billion.
• 26 February: Vicente Massey swears as the first Canadian Governor General born in Canada.

March

• March 1st: Uruguay assumes the presidency of the "Colegiate".
• March 3: The current Constitution is adopted in Puerto Rico.
• 4 March: Japan has a strong earthquake of 8.1.
• March 10: In Cuba the coup leader Fulgencio Batista led a coup against the democratic president Carlos Prío Socarrás.
• March 15: In Cylaos (Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean) the most abundant rain is recorded in 24 h (since scientific record is taken): 1870 mm.
• March 21st: the first rock concert ever takes place.

April

• April 1st: In Area 5 of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, United States detonates the atomic bomb Able (i.e. "A"), 1 kiloton), dropping it from a plane. It is the first (eight) operation Tumbler-Snapper
• 9 April
  • In Bolivia, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is facing the government of military president Hugo Ballivián Rojas on the streets of the city of La Paz and Oruro. It is the Bolivian National Revolution.
  • Tragedy in the church of Santa Teresa, in the Basilica of Santa Teresa, in Caracas, Venezuela, after one of the present shouted that there was a fire and caused the stampede. As a result of asphyxiation and crushing, 46 people were killed and 115 injured.
• April 15: In Area 7 of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, United States detonates the atomic bomb Baker. (i.e. "B"), 1 kiloton), dropping it from a plane. It's the second (eight) operation Tumbler-Snapper.
• April 22: In Area 7 of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, United States detonates the atomic bomb Charlie. (i.e. "C"), of 31 kilotons, letting it fall from a plane. It's the third of Operation Tumbler-Snapper. Some 7350 soldiers participating in the Desert Rock IV military exercise will do non-voluntary training during the explosion and will be exposed to radiation.

May

• May 1st: in Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires), Evita Perón pronounces his last message to the people. (It will grow cancer on July 26 of this year).

Photograph taken a few milliseconds after the detonation of one of the eight atomic bombs of the Tumbler-Snapper operation. (The detonation tower can be seen weakly in the lower central "ray".

• 1 May: In Area 7 of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, United States detonates the atomic bomb Dog (i.e. "D"), 19 kilotons, letting it fall from a plane. It's the fourth (eight) operation Tumbler-Snapper. Some 7350 soldiers participating in the military exercise Desert Rock IV will do training during the explosion and will be exposed unintentionally to radiation.
• 2 May: In Venezuela, the Sierra Nevada National Park is founded.
• 7 May: in area 1 of the Nevada nuclear testing site, the United States detonates from a tower the atomic bomb Easy (i.e. "E"), 12 kilotons. It's Operation Tumbler-Snapper's fifth (eight). Some 7350 soldiers participating in the military exercise Desert Rock IV will do training during the explosion and will be exposed unintentionally to radiation.
• May 10: In Mexico, engineer Guillermo González Camarena officially inaugurated Canal 5 at a Mothers' Day Festival (dicho canal is still active).
• May 17: In the Dominican Republic, Hector Welcome Trujillo is elected president.
• May 25: In the area 4 of the Nevada nuclear testing site, the United States detonates from a tower the atomic bomb Fox (i.e. "F"), 11 kilotons. It's the sixth (eight) operation Tumbler-Snapper. Some 7350 soldiers participating in the military exercise Desert Rock IV will observe the explosion and will be exposed unintentionally to radiation.
• 27 May: XXXV International Eucharistic Congress.
• 27 May: the Vázquez Bernabéu Military Hospital is opened in the Valencian municipalities of Mislata and Cuart de Poblet.

June

• June 1st: in area 3 of the Nevada nuclear testing site, the United States detonates from a tower the atomic bomb George (i.e. "G"), 15 kilotons. It's the seventh and penultimate operation Tumbler-Snapper. Some 7350 soldiers participating in the military exercise Desert Rock IV will do training during the explosion and will be exposed unintentionally to radiation.
• 4 June: in Buenos Aires, President Juan Domingo Perón assumed his second term (1952-1958), although he would be overthrown in 1955.
• June 5: In the area 2 of the Nevada nuclear test site, the United States detonates from a tower the atomic bomb How (i.e. "H"), 14 kilotons. It is the eighth and last of the Tumbler-Snapper operation, and the number 32 of the total of 1054 atomic bombs that detonated that country between 1945 and 1992. On this occasion no one was exposed to radiation.
• June 10: An earthquake of 6.8 leaves 5 dead in the Province of San Juan in Argentina.
• June 28: in Long Beach (California) the modern Miss Universe contest is held for the first time.

July

• July 5: in London (United Kingdom) the last old tram runs; this mode of transport will not return to the city until 2000.
• July 6: In Mexico, presidential elections are held where the official candidate Adolfo Ruiz Cortines is elected in the midst of an atmosphere of protest.
• July 19: opening of the Helsinki Olympics 1952
• 21 July: in Kern County (California) there is a strong earthquake of 7.3 that leaves 12 dead and hundreds wounded and causing estimated damage of $60 million.
• July 25: The constitution of the United States Free Associated State enters into force in Puerto Rico.
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  On 26 July, María Eva Duarte de Perón, first lady of Argentina (1946-1952) died at the age of 33. Image of sepelio in Buenos Aires.
  26 July:
  • in Egypt a coup d'etat defeats King Faruk I.
  • leader Eva Duarte, wife of President Juan Domingo Perón, died in Buenos Aires.

August

• August 3: closing of the Helsinki Olympics 1952
• August 10: Mexico establishes the first official programming of Canal 5 that 3 months ago opened Guillermo González Camarena
• August 11: In Jordan the Parliament deposes King Talal because he is unable to rule for suffering from schizophrenia.
• August 12: In Moscow, in the Soviet Union, on the night of August 12-13, 13 Yiddish artists are secretly executed under the orders of Iosif Stalin in the basement of Lubyanka prison in Moscow.
• August 16: In Devon County, in England, a catastrophic flood occurs; 34 died.
• August 18: Chile celebrates the day of solidarity founded after the death of San Alberto Hurtado.
• August 18: An earthquake of 7.5 shakes the region of Tibet leaving a balance of 54 fatalities.

September

• September 6: In Bogotá a series of fires of criminal origin perpetrated by protesters against the Colombian Liberal Party in the context of the period known as La Violencia.
• 10 September: in Europe the first session of the 78 deputies of the Assembly of the European Community of Coal and Steel, an predecessor of the European Parliament begins.
• September 29: During the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the National Guard of Venezuela perpetrates the massacre of Turén as a retaliation to a peasant uprising, where, according to some estimates, more than one hundred people were killed.

October

Photograph of the explosion HurricaneThe first British atomic bomb in 1952.

The railway accident at Harrow & Wealdstone, England.

• 3 October: at 16:59, within a boat anchored on Trimouille Island (north Australia), the UK detonates its first atomic bomb, Hurricane, of 25 kt (the same power as Fat Manthe second and last atomic bomb used against civilian population in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. UK becomes the third nation that has atomic bombs all over the world.
• October 7th: the bar code is invented.
• October 8: In the United Kingdom, the railway accident occurs the most serious in the country's peace times. Three trains hit the nearby Harrow & Wealdstone station in London; 112 people die and 340 are injured.
• October 24: Hurricane Fox, category 5, crosses the island of Cuba with winds of 280 km/h.
• October 27: In Lima, Peru, the José Díaz National Stadium was inaugurated.
• October 31: In the Atoll of Enewetak, Marshall Islands, the United States detonates Ivy Mike (the first hydrogen bomb), at 19:15 (world time) or at 7:15 on 1 November (local time).
• October 31: In Catavi (Bolivia), the decree of nationalization of the mines belonging to the "Barones del Estaño" is signed.

November

• 3 November: in Chile, General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo assumes for the second time the presidency of Chile (this time democratically) ending the stage of the “radical governments” and initiating the so-called “independent governments”.
• 4 November:
  • United States presidential elections of 1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower beats Democrat Adlai Stevenson with an advantage of 342 electoral votes for Eisenhower and 189 for Stevenson. Thus, the Republicans agree to the presidency after 20 years in the opposition.
  • 

    Atomic pump Ivy King (from 1952), view from the air.
    Elecciones en Puerto Rico:Luis Muñoz Marin revalida la gobernación en Puerto Rico esta vez con 431,409 el 64.9% el segundo lugar fue para Fernando Milan del PIP con 126,228 el 19%, third Francisco López Domínguez (Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño) 85,591 12.9% y un último lugar para Luis R. Moczó (Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño) con 21,79%
  • on the Kamchatka peninsula (Russia) there is an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that causes a series of tsunamis that leave more than 2000 dead.
• 16 November: at the Enewetak atoll at 11:30, local time (or 23:30, world time), United States detonates at 450 metres altitude the atomic bomb Ivy King500 kiloton.
• November 20: The University Olympic Stadium is inaugurated in Mexico City.

December

• December 1st: in Mexico, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines takes office as president as his quincuagesimocuarto president for the presidential term 1952-1958.
• 5-9 December: a large fog of air pollution covers the city of London causing the death of 12,000 people.
• December 24: In New Zealand, the worst railway accident in the country's history occurs; 151 people died and 20 disappeared.

Births

January

• January 3: Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish politics.
• 7 January:
  • Valeria Lynch, Argentine singer and actress.
  • Sammo Hung, actor, martial artist, director, screenwriter and Chinese producer.
• 11 January:
  • Dawn Penn, reggae Jamaican singer.
  • Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright.
  • Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, a Venezuelan physician.
• 16 January: Fuad II, Egyptian king.
• 17 January:
  • Luisa Albinoni, actress, comedian, singer and Vedette Argentina.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician, composer and Japanese actor.
• 20 January:
  • Paul Stanley, American singer and guitarist, from the Kiss band.
  • Lil Rodríguez, a Venezuelan journalist.
• January 23: Angela Carrasco Cantante dominicana
• January 28: Cándido Méndez, a Spanish trade unionist and politician.
• January 29: Alejandro Honda, Mexican painter.
• January: Lourdes Rensoli, Cuban poet.

February

• 2 February:
  • Park Geun-hye, South Korean president.
  • Carol Ann Susi, American actress (f. 2014).
  • Fernando Morena, Uruguayan footballer.
• 4 February:
  • Jenny Shipley, first New Zealand minister.
  • Florina Lemaitre, Colombian actress.
• February 6: Ricardo La Volpe, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 8 February:
  • Consuelo Mariño, Spanish writer.
  • Daisuke Gōri, Japanese seiyū (f. 2010).
• 12 February:
  • Patricia Dal (Teresa Dal Maso), actress, dancer, exmodelo and exvedette argentina.
  • Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (f. 2010).
  • Michael McDonald, American singer, The Doobie Brothers band.
• 13 February: Soledad Silveyra actress, conductor and jury in Argentina
• February 15: Elsa Bornemann, Argentine writer (f. 2013).
• February 19: Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican astronaut.
• February 22: Marcos Caruso, Brazilian actor.
• February 25: Flora de Pablo, PhD in Spanish medicine, specialist in cell and molecular biology.

March

• March 4: Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer.
• March 12: Rafael Lara Martínez, an anthropologist, linguist, literary critic and Salvadoran writer.
• 17 March:
  • Barry Horne, British activist (f. 2001).
  • Perla, Paraguayan-Brazilian singer.
• March 20: Pastora Medina, Venezuelan politics.
• March 21: Berenice Azambuja, singer, songwriter and Brazilian musician.
• March 24: Quim Monzó, Spanish writer.
• March 25: Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and political.
• March 26: Willington Ortiz, Colombian footballer.
• March 28: Sergio Fachelli, Uruguayan singer.
• 31 March:
  • Omar Chabán, Argentine businessman (f. 2014).
  • Celmira Luzardo, Colombian actress (f. 2014).
  • Aleksandar Srdjan, politician and Serbian judge

April

• 1 April: László Tőkés, pastor and Hungarian politician of Romanian origin.
• April 3: Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thai politician and diplomat.
• 6 April:
  • Udo Dirkschneider, German musician, Accept and UDO bands.
  • Marilu Henner, American actress and writer.
• April 8: Hermann Escarrá, Venezuelan politician.
• April 10: Hugo Broos, Belgian footballer.
• April 15: Glenn Shadix, American actor (f. 2010).
• April 16: Billy West, American voice actor.
• April 17: Joe Alaskey, actor, comedian and American locutor (f. 2016).
• 18 April:
  • Jorge Boccanera, Argentine poet and journalist.
  • Reyes Tamez, Mexican researcher and politician.
• April 21: Chelo Vivares, Spanish actress.
• April 23: Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French journalist, a survivor of a brain attack (f. 1997).
• 28 April:
  • Mary McDonnell, American actress.
  • Leni Stern (Magdalena Thora), guitarist, singer and German actress.

May

• 2 May: Christine Baranski, American actress.
• May 6: Christian Clavier, French actor.
• May 10: Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish writer and filmmaker.
• 11 May:
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress.
  • Frances Fisher, British actress.
  • Lobito Martínez, Paraguayan musician and composer.
• May 18: Ryūzaburō, Japanese seiyū.
• May 19: Alfredo Barnechea, a Peruvian politician.
• May 20: Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer.
• 21 May: Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud), American actor.
• 25 May:
  • Susana Perez, Cuban actress.
  • Petar Stoyanov, Bulgarian politician and president.
  • Monica Vehil, Argentine actress, sister of Miguel Angel Solá.
• May 27: Rosa Díez, Spanish politics.

June

• June 1st: Şenol Güneş, footballer and Turkish coach.
• June 2: Edgardo Mocca, a politician and an Argentine journalist.
• June 4: Bronislaw Komorowski, Polish President.
• 7 June:
  • Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor.
  • Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer.
• June 11: Anote Tong, former president of kiribatí.
• 16 June:
  • Jerry Hadley, American tenor (f. 2007).
  • Salvador Pineda, Mexican actor.
• 18 June:
  • Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress and model.
  • Marcella Bella, Italian singer.

John Goodman.

• June 20: John Goodman, American actor.

July

• July 1: Dan Aykroyd, writer, actor and screenwriter of Canadian cinema.
• 3 July:
  • Lu Colombo, Italian singer
• *Laura Branigan, American singer (f. 2004)
• July 4: Álvaro Uribe Vélez, former president and Colombian political senator.
• 5 July:
  • Moses Naím, writer, columnist and Venezuelan politician.
  • Néstor González González, Venezuelan military.
• July 6: Hilary Mantel, British writer.
• July 7: Gregorio Morales, Spanish writer.
• 8 July: Nacho Martínez, Spanish actor (f. 1996).
• July 10: Lee Hae-Chan, South Korean politician.
• July 11: Stephen Lang, American actor.
• July 14: Enriqueta Ulloa, Bolivian singer.
• July 15: Johnny Thunders, American singer and guitarist from the New York Dolls band (f. 1991).
• July 16: Stewart Copeland, American musician.
• 17 July:
  • Carmen Balagué, Spanish actress.
  • David Hasselhoff, American actor.
• 21 July: Nelson Rodríguez Prado, Chilean journalist.
• July 22: Luis Fernando Duque, Colombian politician.
• 26 July: Berenice Gómez, a Venezuelan journalist (f. 2020).
• July 27: Eduardo Milan, poet, essayist and Uruguayan literary critic.
• July 29: Guillermo Heras, Spanish actor.
• July 30: Ilan Chester, Venezuelan singer.

August

• 1 August:
  • Juan Ribó, Spanish actor.
  • Takayuki Sugō, Japanese actor and voice actor.
• August 3: Nito Mestre, Argentine rock musician.
• August 8: Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer.
• August 10: Roberto Bailey, Honduran footballer (f. 2019).
• August 12: Charlie Whiting, British engineer, Formula 1 racing director (f. 2019).
• August 16: Sonia Silvestre, Dominican singer and speaker.
• 17 August:
  • Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player.
  • Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Formula 1 pilot.
• August 18: Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer and dancer (f. 2009).

Joe Strummer.

• August 21: Joe Strummer, British musician.
• August 22: Giovanna Pollarolo, Peruvian writer.
• August 28: Carlos Mata, Venezuelan singer and actor.

September

• September 1st: Benjamin Monterroso, footballer and Guatemalan coach.
• September 7: Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motorcyclist (f. 1998).
• September 8: Gloria Marcó, Argentine singer of tango.
• 9 September: David A. Stewart, British musician, of the Eurythmics band.
• 12 September:
  • Álvaro Ortega Madero, Colombian football referee (f. 1989).
  • Neil Peart, Canadian drummer of the Rush band
• September 16: Mickey Rourke, American actor.
• September 17: Pedro Luis Ferrer, Cuban musician.
• September 18: Dee Dee Ramone, American musician.
• September 20: Manuel Zelaya, Honduran politician, president between 2006 and 2009.
• 25 September:
  • Christopher Reeve, American actor and filmmaker (f. 2004).
  • Ximena Aulestia, Ecuadorian journalist and presenter.
• September 27: Jorge Luis Bernal, Colombian football coach.
• September 30: José Massaroli, Argentine hysterist.

October

• October 5: Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor and writer.
• 7 October:
  • Vladimir Putin, Russian president.
  • Serguéi Sviachenko, Ukrainian artist.
• October 14: Rick Aviles, American actor (f. 1995).
• October 18: Héctor Lindo Fuentes, Salvadoran historian.
• October 19: Verónica Castro, actress, singer and Mexican presenter.
• October 20: Eliane Giardini, Brazilian actress.
• 21 October:
  • Eduardo Kímel, journalist and Argentine writer (f. 2010).
  • Brent Mydland, American key player, Grateful Dead band.
• October 22: Jeff Goldblum, American actor.
• October 27: Roberto Benigni, actor, humorist, screenwriter and Italian film and television director.

November

• November 3: Jim Cummings, American voice actor.
• 5 November:
  • Teresa Rabal, Spanish actress.
  • Vandana Shiva, physics, philosopher and Indian writer.
• November 8: Alfre Woodard, American actress.
• 9 November: Jack Szostak, British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009.
• November 10: Fernando Allende, Mexican actor and singer.
• 13 November: Raquel Pankowsky, Mexican actress and comedian (f. 2022).
• November 14: Maggie Roswell, American actress.
• 16 November: Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game creator.
• November 18: Delroy Lindo, an American actor of British origin.
• November 26: Paco Flores, Spanish football coach.
• November 28: S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress.
• November 29: Pedro Damián, producer, director, actor, writer and Mexican writer.
• 30 November:
  • Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer.
  • Ramón Jesurún, sports leader and Colombian businessman, current president of the Colombian Football Federation.

December

• December 1st: Pegi Young, American singer (f. 2019).
• December 3: Emeterio Cerro, poet and Argentine playwright.
• December 5: Günther Förg, German artist.
• December 9: Estíbaliz Uranga, Spanish singer.
• December 12: Manuel Rosales, Venezuelan politician.
• December 14: Graciela Alfano, actress of cinema, theatre and television, model and former Argentinean.
• December 15: Tormenta (Liliana Ester Maturano), Argentine singer and composer.
• December 16: Jorge Luis Pinto, Colombian football coach.
• December 17: Rene Simões, Brazilian football coach.
• 20 December:
  • Jenny Agutter, British actress.
  • Mercedes Bengoechea, feminist sociolinguist.
• December 26: Mutabaruka, dub poet and rastafari jamaiqueño.
• December 30: Jesús Ferrero, Spanish writer.

Unknown dates

• Urvashi Butalia, writer, editor and Indian feminist activist.
• Ami Koita, Malian singer.
• Francisco Laureana, young Argentinean, accused of being a serial killer; charged by the police at the age of 22 (f. 1975)
• Lucy Tovar, Mexican actress (f. 2020).

Deaths

January

• January 11: Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (n. 1885).
• January 18: Jerome Howard, American actor.
• January 30: Alejo Bay, Mexican politician (n. 1881).

February

• February 6: George VI, British king between 1936 and 1952.
• February 18: Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish author.
• February 19: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

March

• March 1st: Mariano Azuela, Mexican writer.
• 4 March: Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932.
• March 11: Pierre Renoir, a French film and theatre actor (n. 1885).
• March 30: Nikos Beloyannis, Greek Communist politician(n. 1915).

April

• April 19: José Obeso Revol, Spanish politician.

May

• 6 May: Maria Montessori, pedagogue and Italian medical
• May 21: John Garfield, American actor.

June

• June 9: Adolf Busch, German violinist.

July

• 23 July: Augustine Bisio, Uruguayan poet (n. 1894).
• July 26: Eva Perón, Argentinian politics (n. 1919).

August

• 13 August: Wilm Hosenfeld, German captain (n.1895).
• August 12: Leib Kvitko, a Ukrainian Jewish Yiddish poet, murdered by order of Iosif Stalin on the Night of the Assassinated Poets (n.1890).
• August 12: David Bergelson, a Ukrainian Jewish Yiddish poet, killed by order of Iosif Stalin on the Night of the Assassinated Poets (n 1884).
• August 12: Itzik Feffer, a Ukrainian Jewish Yiddish poet, murdered by order of Iosif Stalin on the Night of the Murdered Poets (n.1900).
• August 12: Solomon Lozovski, a Ukrainian Jewish Yiddish poet, murdered by order of Iosif Stalin on the Night of the Assassinated Poets (n.1878).
• August 18: Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, a Chilean religious (n.1901).

October

• October 3: Alfred Neumann, German writer and writer.
• October 9: Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer and judge.
• October 12: Marceliano Santa María, a Spanish painter.

November

• November 18: Paul Eluard, French poet.
• November 20: Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher, writer and politician.
• November 20: Gertrude Breslau Hunt, author and U.S. socialist lecturer. (n. 1869).

Art and literature

• January 6: Dolores Medio wins the Nadal award for his novel We, the Rivero.
• 11 January: Estrena in Madrid The dream weaverAntonio Buero Vallejo.
• Ernest Hemingway: The old and the sea.
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot.
• Isaac Asimov: The currents of space, Foundation and Empire.
• Italo Calvino: The vizconde demediate.
• Agatha Christie: Mrs. McGinty is dead., The trick of mirrors; A daughter is a daughter (under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott).
• Patricia Highsmith: Carol..
• John Steinbeck: East of Eden.
• Kurt Vonnegut: The pianola.
• C. S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
• Jean Anouilh: The alondra.
• Jacinto Benavente: Don Juan is here..
• Jean-Paul Sartre: Saint Genet comédien et martyr.

Cinema

• Candilejas American film directed by Charles Chaplin.
• Singing in the rain American film directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly.
• Cautives of evil American film directed by Vincente Minnelli, winner of 5 Oscar Awards in 1953.
• The quiet man American film led by John Ford, winner of 2 Oscar Awards in 1953.
• Far horizons American film directed by Anthony Mann.
• The biggest show in the world American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, winner of 2 Oscar Awards in the 25th edition, one of them to the best film.
• The world in your hands American film directed by Raoul Walsh.
• The Placer French film directed by Max Ophüls.
• Europe '51 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini.
• Ivanhoe Anglo-American film directed by Richard Thorpe.
• Prohibitions French film directed by René Clément, winner of the Oscar for the best non-English speaking film in the 25th edition, the Golden Lion in the Mostra of Venice of 1952, and the Bafta Award for the best film in the VII edition.
• Mother Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse.
• Operation Cicero American film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
• Paris, low funds French film directed by Jacques Becker.
• Only in the face of danger American film directed by Fred Zinnemann, winner of 4 Oscar Awards in the 25th edition.
• Umberto D. Italian film directed by Vittorio de Sica.
• Life of Oharu, gallant woman Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, winner of the International Venice Film Festival Award of 1952.
• Living (Iriku) Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Science and technology

• A.S. Douglas creates OXO, the first video game ever.

Music

• Prokófiev: Symphony of youth.
• In the United States, the company Gibson Guitar Corporation introduces the electric guitar Gibson Les Paul into the market.
• Alberto Ginastera (Argentina): the Sonata for piano No. 1, op. 22 was commissioned by the Carnegie Institute and the Pennsylvanie College for Women for the Pittsburgh Contemporary Music Festival in 1952.
• New York, September 17. The singer and actor Frank Sinatra recorded his last song “Why Try To Change Me Now” under the direction of Percy Faith. For the record label Columbia Records.

Sports

Olympic Games

• From 14 to 25 February, the VI Winter Olympics of the modern era are held in Oslo, Norway.
• From July 19 to August 3, the 15th Summer Olympic Games of the modern era are held in Helsinki, Finland.

Baseball

• League of Professional Baseball of the Dominican Republic: the Barbaian Eagles proclaim themselves champions by defeating the Tigers of Licey.

Boxing

• In September 1952 Rocky Marciano nominated Jersey Joe Walcott.

Formula 1

• Alberto Ascari is the world champion of Formula 1.

Football

• FC Barcelona, champion of the Spanish League of Male Football.
• Real Jaén CF, champion of the Men's Federation Cup.
• Uruguayan Football Championship: National is dedicated champion for the second time.
• Professional Colombian Football: Millionaires (third time).
• Chile's First Division: Everton is second-time champion.
• Venezuela officially enters as a member of the Conmebol.

Wrestling

• The professional free wrestling promoter World Wrestling Entertainment is founded.

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell.
• Chemistry: Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge.
• Medicine: Selman Abraham Waksman.
• Literature: François Mauriac.
• Peace: Albert Schweitzer.