WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1952
Find out what all happened August to September 1952

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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