WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1952
Find out what all happened April to December 1952

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87. (20. December 1952)

Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land. (27. June 1952)

The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. (19. September 1952)

King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. (26. July 1952)

Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece. (19. November 1952)

The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. (12. August 1952)

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang. (6. September 1952)

Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. (12. September 1952)

Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines (9. April 1952)

Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. (12. May 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. (23. July 1952)

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. (8. October 1952)

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. (21. June 1952)

The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. (22. August 1952)

Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated. (21. April 1952)

Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. (14. October 1952)

The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress (15. April 1952)

The women of Greece are given the right to vote. (28. May 1952)

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. (1. November 1952)

Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history. (25. November 1952)