WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1952
Find out what all happened February to September 1952

A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board. (6. September 1952)

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

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

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

A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people. (15. August 1952)

The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution. (25. July 1952)

The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published. (1. September 1952)

Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. (28. April 1952)

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

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

The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. (13. May 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)

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

United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. (15. September 1952)

The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg. (2. May 1952)

The European Coal and Steel Community is established. (23. July 1952)

Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president". (10. March 1952)

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