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1952 Calendar

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•  January 27, 1952 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  February 29, 1952 – The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
•  April 9, 1952 – 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
•  April 15, 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
•  April 21, 1952 – Secretary‘s Day (now Administrative Professionals’Day) is first celebrated.
•  April 28, 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
•  July 3, 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
•  August 22, 1952 – The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
•  November 19, 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
•  December 1, 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.

•  January 1, 1952 – Stephanie Faracy, American actress
•  March 16, 1952 – Scott Simon, American journalist and radio personality
•  May 23, 1952 – Anne-Marie David, French singer
•  June 6, 1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor
•  July 7, 1952 – Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
•  November 3, 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
•  December 5, 1952 – Andy Kim, Canadian singer, songwriter
•  December 7, 1952 – Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
•  December 27, 1952 – Karla Bonoff, American singer and songwriter
•  December 31, 1952 – Vaughan F. R. Jones , New Zealand mathematician