6th February » Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of Order of succession or succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
8th February » Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom e.g Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen regnant or Queen of the United Kingdom.
20th February » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire (baseball) or umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
21st February » The Government of the United Kingdom British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes Identity document identity cards in the United Kingdom UK to "set the people free".
21st February » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
26th February » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
29th February » The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
10th March » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
15th March » In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
20th March » The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
21st March » Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
8th April » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide Strike action e.g strike.
11th April » The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
15th April » The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
28th April » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
28th April » Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
28th April » The Treaty of Taipei called Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
3rd May » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
3rd May » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
7th May » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
12th May » Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur known as Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
13th May » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
28th May » The women of Greece are granted suffrage known as the right to vote.
13th June » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 e.g MiG-15 fighter.
14th June » The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus SSN-571 6.
21st June » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
26th June » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Federation of Malaya called Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
27th June » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
3rd July » The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
3rd July » The SS e.g United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS or Queen Mary.
7th July » The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the Blue Riband transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
19th July » The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
23rd July » The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
23rd July » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (Egypt) e.g Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
25th July » The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
26th July » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad II of Egypt known as Fuad.
11th August » Hussein of Jordan known as Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
12th August » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow e.g Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
15th August » Lynmouth Flood e.g A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth known as Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people.
1st September » 'The Old Man and the Sea', the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction e.g Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
6th September » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the Boyd Gang Second escape named second escape of the Boyd Gang.
6th September » A prototype aircraft 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash e.g crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
12th September » Strange occurrences, including a Flatwoods monster or monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
15th September » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
19th September » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
23rd September » Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
8th October » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
14th October » Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle (Korea) or Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
20th October » Colonial Heads of Kenya Governor Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first Heads o
1st November » Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" "M" for megaton, in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
4th November » The United States Federal government of the United States or government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
14th November » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the NME named New Musical Express.
19th November » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd List of Prime Ministers of Greece or Prime Minister of Greece.
20th November » Slánský trials a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
25th November » Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle (Korea) known as Iron Triangle".
29th November » Korean War: President of the United States known as U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1st December » The 'New York Daily News' reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
5th December » Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
20th December » A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II called C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.