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1952 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1952 – President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
•  January 14, 1952 – NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
•  January 27, 1952 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  February 8, 1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
•  March 10, 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
•  May 2, 1952 – The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
•  June 13, 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
•  July 23, 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.
•  September 8, 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
•  December 1, 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.

•  February 22, 1952 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
•  March 1, 1952 – Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach
•  March 30, 1952 – Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
•  April 6, 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
•  June 16, 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
•  July 3, 1952 – Amit Kumar, Indian singer
•  September 13, 1952 – Raymond O'Connor, American actor
•  October 26, 1952 – David Was, member of 1980's group Was (Not Was)
•  November 24, 1952 – Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz)
•  December 27, 1952 – Karla Bonoff, American singer and songwriter