1952

January

• January 1 - Jordan’s Constitution adopted. Entered into force on January 8 ^[1] .
• January 7 - The government of Rene Pleven in France received a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly and resigned ^[2] .
• January 11th - The new French government is tasked to form Edgar Forau . On January 17, his cabinet received a vote of confidence in the National Assembly and on January 20 began to assume duties. ^[2]
• January 16 - Crown Prince of Egypt Ahmed Fouad was born ^[3] .
• January 18 - French authorities arrested Habib Bourguiba and other leaders of the national movement of Tunisia ^[4] .
• January 26 - Mass demonstrations in Cairo turned into pogroms and arson of government agencies, as well as foreign-owned shops and cinemas ^[5] .
• January 27 - In the evening after the conflict with Great Britain , Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas was dismissed, martial law was introduced in the country. Ali Mahir Pasha was appointed Prime Minister (until March 2, 1952) ^{[6] [7]} .
• January 30 - In Syria, the military government of Colonel Adib Sishekli passed the first decree on the division of state-owned land among private landowners. The second decree on the division of land was issued October 29, 1952 ^[8] .

February

• February 6 - Elizabeth II’s accession to the English throne.
• February 20 - parliamentary elections in Libya . The leader of the National Congress Party, Bashir Saadavi, accused the royal authorities of falsifying them ^[9] .
• February 22 - Political parties are banned in Libya ^{[note 1]} . The leader of the National Congress Party, Bashir Saadavi, was expelled from the country ^[9] .
• February 28 - The Administrative Agreement between Japan and the USA was signed in Tokyo , which left the US Army with all its bases in Japan and obliged the Japanese government to allocate $ 155 million annually for the maintenance of American troops in Japanese territory ^[10] .
• February 29 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of France Edgar Faure resigned to the President of the Republic Vincent Oriol ^[2] .

March

• March 2 - the resignation of the Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Mahir Pasha after the refusal of Great Britain to negotiate. Ahmad Hilali Pasha was appointed Prime Minister (until June 28, 1952). King Farouk I sent Parliament on a monthly holiday ^{[5] [6]} .
• March 8 - Antoine Pinet cabinet formed in France ^[2] .
• March 10 - In Cuba, General Fulgencio Batista coup and overthrew President Carlos Prio Sokarras ^[11] .
• March 11 - General Dwight Eisenhower led the New Hampshire primaries .
• March 19 - The Egyptian Parliament was dissolved, the leaders of the HAFD party were arrested , the electoral law was changed.
• March 24 - Egyptian parliamentary elections postponed to May 18.
• 26 March
  • The French authorities arrested the government of the protectorate of Tunisia , headed by Mohamed Chenik . The new cabinet was formed only in April ^[4] .
  • Two aircraft collided at the airport in Tula , killing at least 70 people. The largest plane crash in the USSR at that time.
• March 30 - Nikos Beloyannis , a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, was shot dead at the Goody proving ground near Athens , in whose defense a broad international campaign was launched.
• March 31
  • 15 African and Asian countries demanded to convene the UN Security Council on the Tunisian issue. Their collective complaint against France was rejected on April 14 .
  • The leader of the Guatemalan opposition, Carlos Castillo Armas, and General Miguel Idigoras Fuentes signed the “Secret Pact and Unification Commitment” in San Salvador , aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary government of Guatemala. Castillo Armas was appointed military leader of the conspiracy ^[12] .
  • The II congress of the ruling Albanian Party of Labor opened in Tirana . He completed his work on April 7 , having accepted the tasks of the 1st Five-Year Plan (1951–1955), which was aimed at turning agrarian Albania into an agrarian-industrial country ^[13] .

April

• April 3 - The new Cuban government severed diplomatic relations with the USSR ^[14] .
• April 9 - The Bolivian Revolution : a working-class uprising in Bolivia . The miners began fighting with a regular army in the country's capital, La Paz. ^[15]
• April 11th
• The beginning of a two-month steelworkers strike in the United States.
  • The Bolivian Revolution : The rebel miners control the capital of Bolivia, La Paz. The head of the ruling military junta, General Hugo Ballyvian Rojas, and a group of generals flew out of the country. Hernan Siles Suazo (until April 15, 1952) became the provisional president of Bolivia ^{[15] [16]} .
  • General Dwight Eisenhower resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe from June 1 .
  • DC-4 crash near San Juan .
• April 13 - Egyptian parliamentary elections are postponed indefinitely.
• April 15
  • Victor Paz Estenssoro returned to Bolivia and took over as president of the country (until August 6, 1956 ) ^[17] .
  • Made the first flight of an American strategic bomber B-52 "Stratofortress" .
• April 25 - Catastrophe IL-12 near Novosibirsk .
• April 29 - the agreement on the creation of the ANZUS unit ^[18] came into force.

May

• May 18 - France held elections to the Council of the Republic.
• May 25 - Andre Stil, editor-in-chief of the communist newspaper L'Humenite , was arrested and sent to Sante prison in France ^[19] .
• May 26 - In Bonn, without the participation of the USSR, a General Agreement was signed between the FRG and the former allied powers - the USA , Great Britain and France . The treaty abolished the occupation regime in West Germany, while significantly limiting the sovereignty of Germany, and ignoring the position of another ally - the USSR. It did not enter into force due to the fact that France did not ratify the Paris Treaty of 1952 ^[20] .
• May 28 - A protest was held in France against the visit of American General Ridgway to the country. The authorities arrested the acting secretary general of the French Communist Party, Jacques Duclos , who was accused of espionage activities (the so-called “Conspiracy with pigeons” ) ^[21] .
• May 28 - US Secretary of State Dean Acheson and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden began a two-day meeting on the situation in Indochina with French leaders led by Prime Minister Antoine Pinet .

June

• June 1 - the movement of ships began along the Volga-Don Canal (the official opening took place on July 27, 1952) ^[22] .
• June 2 - Bolivian revolution : Bolivia issued a decree establishing a state monopoly on the export of ores and ore concentrates ^[23] . The US State Department has announced the recognition of the new government of Bolivia ^[24] .
• June 17 - the government of Colonel Jacobo Arbens in Guatemala proclaimed the law on agrarian reform ^[25] .
• June 26 - Argentina adopted a law on the construction of a monument to the cancer patient's wife, President Peron, Evita Peron ^[26] .
• June 27 - McCaren-Walter law was passed prohibiting the entry into the United States of persons of communist beliefs ^[27] .
• June 28 - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Hilali Pasha resigned. The following evening, the formation of the government was entrusted to Hussein Sirri Pasha ^{[5] [6]} .

July

• July 1 - In France, for lack of proof of involvement in the events of May 28, acting secretary general of the French Communist Party, Jacques Duclos , was released from prison in Sante ^[28] .
• July 2 - The government of Hussein Sirri Pasha (before July 22, 1952) was sworn in Egypt ^{[6] [29]} .
• July 17 - Argentina adopted a law on compulsory schooling of Evita Peron’s book The Meaning of My Life ^[26] .
• July 20 - Egyptian Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha resigned. King Farouk I initially refused to accept her, but on the evening of July 21 he again ordered the formation of a cabinet by Ahmad Hilali-Pasha ^[6] .
• July 21 - Bolivian Revolution : government decree in Bolivia introduced universal suffrage ^[30] .
• July 22 - the government of Ahmad Hilali was formed in Egypt (until July 23, 1952) ^[5] .
• July 23
  • The July Revolution in Egypt : the overthrow of the monarchy. Ali Mahir Pasha was appointed Prime Minister (until September 9, 1952) ^[5] .
  • The Treaty Establishing the European Coal and Steel Community , signed on April 18, 1951, entered into force.

• July 25 - the announcement by the US Congress of Puerto Rico "voluntarily joined the state."
• 26 July
  • The July Revolution in Egypt : King of Egypt Farouk I abdicated the throne in Alexandria and left the country. The seven-month crown prince Ahmed Fuad ^{[note 2]} under the name of Ahmed Fuad II (until June 18, 1953 ) ^{[5] [6] was} proclaimed a new king of Egypt and Sudan .
  • The wife of Argentine President Evita Peron passed away . The country declared a 30-day mourning, the province of La Plata renamed the province of Eva Peron ^[26] .

August

• August 2 - The July Revolution in Egypt : the political police were dissolved in Egypt.
• August 10 - The July Revolution in Egypt : the Egyptian government called parliamentary elections for February 1953 with the condition of purging political parties.
• August 11 - King of Jordan Talal bin Abdullah is recognized as mentally ill and abdicated. His minor son Hussein bin Talal became King of Jordan (he died on February 7, 1999 ) ^[31] .

September

• September 6 - Accident at the Farnborough Airshow .
• September 7 - The July Revolution in Egypt : Chairman of the Revolution Leadership Council, Major General Mohammed Nagib (until February 25, 1954 ) , was appointed Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Egypt after the resignation of Ali Mahir Pasha ^[6] . Arrests of oppositionists began in the country ^[32] .
• 9th of September
  • The July Revolution in Egypt : a law on agrarian reform was published in Egypt ^{[5] [33]} .
  • Lebanon’s Prime Minister Sami al-Solh resigned. He was replaced by Nazim al-Akkari ^[34] .
• September 10 - the Luxembourg Treaty is signed.
• September 12 - The USSR government issued a decree " On the design and construction of facility 627 " (the first Soviet nuclear submarine).
• September 14 - A general strike began in Lebanon to protest against the policies of President Bishar el-Khoury ^[35] . Prime Minister Nazim al-Akkari , who was replaced by Saeb Salam, resigned ^[34] .
• September 18 - Lebanese President Bishara El-Khoury ^[35] resigned. The acting president was General Fuad Shehab . Prime Minister Saeb Salam resigned ^[34] .
• September 23 - Camille Chamoun, elected by parliament, took office in Lebanon ^[35] . The next day, Abdullah Aref al-Yafi was appointed prime minister ^[34] .
• September 19 - the first trolley bus was launched in Minsk .
• September 30 - Lebanese Prime Minister Abdullah Aref al-Yafi resigned. The next day, Khaled Shehab ^[34] took over this post.

October

• October 2 - The Bolivian Revolution : the state mining corporation KOMIBOL was created in Bolivia , uniting the nationalized enterprises of the mining industry ^[36] .
• October 5
  • The 19th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) opened in Moscow ; the party was renamed the CPSU (continued until October 14 ).
  • In Libya, a member of the royal family, Sharif bin Seyid Muhiddin al-Senussi, killed the favorite of King Ibrahim Shelha. A state of emergency has been introduced in the country ^[37] .
• October 8 - The July Revolution in Egypt : The Egyptian Revolutionary Council of Egypt announced that it is starting to consider projects for the construction of the Aswan High Dam . The drafting of the project was entrusted to the West German firm Hochtief, which undertook to submit the project by March 1953. ^[38]
• October 11 - Il-12 and TS-62 aircraft collided over the village of Skvoritsy in the Leningrad Region, 31 people were killed.
• October 14 - The July Revolution in Egypt : the Regent Council of Egypt was dissolved. Prince Abdel Moneim was appointed Regent.
• October 16 - the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee formed the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee , replacing the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) ^[39] .
• October 20 - A state of emergency has been declared in Kenya in connection with the Mau Mau rebellion .
• October 31 - Bolivian revolution : Bolivia issued a decree on the nationalization of the property of the mining monopolies Patiño, Hochschild and Aramayo, which produced up to 80% of Bolivian tin mining ^[15] .

November

• November 1 - The United States of America on the atoll of Eniwetok conducted the first test of a 12 megaton hydrogen bomb ^[40] .
• November 2 - A monument to A. M. Gorky by sculptor V. I. Mukhina and architects V. V. Lebedev and P. P. Steller was unveiled in Gorky .
• November 4 - US presidential election. The victory was won by the candidate of the Republican Party, Dwight Eisenhower .
• November 5
  • The first trolleybus was launched in Vladimir .
  • In the Kuril Islands tsunami destroyed the city of Severo-Kurilsk , 2,336 people were killed.
• November 10 - Prince Akihito , the eldest son of Emperor Hirohito of Japan , proclaimed crown prince ^[41] .
• November 12 - the Soviet strategic bomber Tu-95 made its first flight.
• November 22 - Catastrophe C-124 near Anchorage .
• November 28 - C-54 Catastrophe at Tacoma

December

• December 1 - Argentina adopted the plan of the second five-year plan (1953-1957) ^[26] .
• December 2 - military coup in Venezuela . The ruling military junta of Colonel Herman Suarez Flamerich was overthrown, the junta's general Marcos Perez Jimenez became the interim head of state ^[42] .
• December 5 - 9 - The Great Smog in London .
• December 10 - July Revolution in Egypt : The “ Free Officers ” that came to power in Egypt abolished the 1923 Constitution and postponed the parliamentary elections ^[5] .
• December 12 - The Congress of Peoples for Peace opened in Vienna . Ended December 19th ^[43] .
• December 20
  • In Libya, after the expulsion of the seven youngest blood princes to the Oasis of the Huns, a royal decree was published, limiting the right of succession to the king’s closest relatives ^[37] .
  • When taking off for Moses Lake , the Douglas C-124A-DL Globemaster II crashed and killed 87 people - the largest plane crash at the time.
• December 23 - The government of Antoine Pinet resigned in France ^[2] . The next day, the leader of the Socialist Party, Guy Mollet, refused to form a cabinet.
• December 29 - coup attempt in Syria , organized by the Baath Party . The chief of the General Staff, Colonel Adib Sishekli, hastily returned from Cairo and suppressed the insurgency, the head of the conspiracy, the Inspector General of the Army Adnan Malki, was arrested.
• December 30 - Georges Bideau refused to form the government of France . The next day, the formation of the cabinet was entrusted to the representative of the Radical Party and radical socialists, Rene Meyer .
• 31th of December
  • A protocol was issued from the USSR to the PRC of the China Changchun Railway , soon renamed the Harbin Railway ^[44] .
  • Start-up of the first stage of the tube-rolling plant in Sumgait ( Azerbaijan SSR ) ^[45] .

The man of the year according to Time magazine is Elizabeth II , Queen of Great Britain.

See also: Category: Born in 1952

January

• January 14 - Mikhail Osokin , Russian journalist and TV host, columnist.
• January 20th
  • Paul Stanley , American musician , guitarist and vocalist of the Kiss .
  • Vladimir Khotinenko , Russian film director.
  • Irina Allegrova , People's Artist of Russia.
• January 31 - Nadia Rusheva , Soviet artist (died in 1969 ).

February

• February 15 - Nikolai Sorokin , Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, deputy of the State Duma of the III convocation (died in 2013 ).
• February 18 - Alexander Barykin , Soviet and Russian rock musician , singer , composer , guitarist (d. 2011 ).
• February 29 - Raisa Smetanina , a multiple world and Olympic champion in cross-country skiing.

March

• March 2 - Sergei Stepashin , Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia from May to August 1999.
• March 5 - Robin Hobb , American science fiction writer.
• March 11 - Douglas Noel Adams , English writer, playwright, screenwriter (died in 2001 ).

April

• April 2 - Alexander Alexandrovich Sharavin , Russian political scientist.
• April 8 - Darvishbek Rakhmonov - circus artist of Uzbekistan , artistic director of the exemplary circus troupe "Kaldirgoch" (Lastochka) .
• April 9 - Oleg Vladimirovich Dolgov , Soviet and Russian physicist.
• April 10th
  • Grigory Yavlinsky , Russian politician, founder of the Yabloko party.
  • Steven Seagal , American film actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director, musician, sheriff and martial arts master.
• April 17 - Zeljko Rajnatovich “Arkan” , a Serbian businessman, crime boss and politician, founder and commander of the Serbian Volunteer Guard (died in 2000 ).
• April 25 - Vladislav Tretiak , Soviet hockey player, goalkeeper.

May

• May 23 - Valery Chaplygin , Soviet athlete, Olympic Champion in cycling.

June

• June 4 - Bronislaw Komorowski , President of Poland since 2010.
• June 7 - Daria Dontsova , Russian writer.
• June 19 - Sergei Varlenovich Pen , Soviet and Russian painter, marine painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation .
• June 21 - Koichi Masimo , well-known Japanese anime director ( Ai City , F , Destruction of the Continent , Irresponsible Captain Tylor , Noir , .hack // SIGN ).

July

• July 1 - Dan Aykroyd , Canadian film actor.
• July 3 - Laura Branigan , American singer originally from New York State. Dance hits performed by her reigned on the radio in Germany and other countries of continental Europe throughout the 1980s. (died in 2004 ).
• July 8 - Karen Shakhnazarov , Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, producer, general director of the Mosfilm cinema concern.
• July 17 - David Hasselhoff , American actor and singer. Best known for his roles in the television series "Knight of the Road" and "Rescuers Malibu."
• July 28 - Maha Wachiralongkorn , King of Thailand .
• August 3 - Mikhail Kravchenko , Soviet athlete - motorcycle racer, Champion of the USSR, Master of Sports of the USSR.

August

• August 1 - Zoran Djindjic , Serbian politician and prime minister of Serbia in 2001–2003.
• August 8 - Jostein Gorder , Norwegian writer and publicist.
• August 10 - Diane Venora , American film actress.
• August 18 - Patrick Swayze , American actor , dancer and songwriter (died in 2009 ).
• August 25 - Kurban Berdyev , Soviet football player, Turkmen and Russian football coach.
• August 30 - Levon Chakhmakhchyan , a former member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Kalmykia .

September

• September 25 - Christopher Reeve , American actor (died in 2004 ).

October

• October 5 - Emomali Rahmon , President of Tajikistan.
• October 7 - Vladimir Putin , the second and fourth president of Russia .

November

• November 3 - Jim Cummings , American voice actor.
• November 5 - Oleg Blokhin , a Soviet football player and Ukrainian football coach.

December

• December 9 - Anatoly Wasserman , Ukrainian journalist , political consultant, multiple winner of intellectual TV games .

See also: Category: Dead in 1952

• January 11 - Jean-Joseph Marie Gabriel de Latre de Tassigny , Marshal of France . In 1945, on behalf of France , signed the Act of the Surrender of Germany (born 1889 )
• June 8 - Sergey Dmitrievich Merkurov , Russian and Soviet mural sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR (born in 1881 ).
• June 18 - Efim Dmitrievich Bogolyubov , Russian-German chess player.
• July 26 - Maria Eva Duarte de Peron , known as Evita , political and social activist of Argentina , the wife of President Juan Peron .
• August 12 - Perets Davidovich Markish , David Rafailovich Bergelson , Isaac Solomonovich Fefer , Veniamin Lvovich Zuskin , Lev Moiseevich Kvitko , David Naumovich Gofshtein were shot.
• September 20 - Alexander Isaakovich Rusakov , Soviet painter (b. 1898 ).

• Physics - Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell - "For the creation of new accurate methods of nuclear magnetic measurements and related discoveries."
• Chemistry - Archer John Porter Martin - "For the development of the method of distribution chromatography, the theory of chromatographic processes."
• Medicine and Physiology - Zelman Waxman - "For the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic that is effective in treating tuberculosis."
• Literature - Francois Mauriac - "For a deep spiritual insight and artistic power, with which he reflected the drama of human life in his novels."
• Peace Prize - Albert Schweitzer - For Missionary Activities.