WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1952
Find out what all happened June to December 1952

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

A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people. (15. August 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. (3. July 1952)

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

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

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

The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express. (14. November 1952)

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

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

Korean War: 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. (29. November 1952)

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

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

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

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

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

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