WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1952
Find out what all happened May to November 1952

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

The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. (4. November 1952)

Governor 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 President of Kenya. (20. October 1952)

The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world. (7. July 1952)

Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". (23. September 1952)

Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. (11. August 1952)

The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. (14. June 1952)

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

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer. (7. May 1952)

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

A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board. (6. September 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 women of Greece are given the right to vote. (28. May 1952)

The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States. (3. July 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)

Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. (13. June 1952)

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

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