16 events found for 1952
Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War seven years
First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors
Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed thre
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0
SS United States (pictured) departed New York Harbor on her maiden voyage, on which completion she became the fastest…
An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck the southern San Joaquin Valley in California, causing 12 deaths and an…
King Talal of Jordan was forced to abdicate due to mental illness and was succeeded by his eldest son Hussein.
Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on…
Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while…
U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of…
The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring…
A footman shot and killed two colleagues and wounded the lady of the house at Knowsley Hall, England.
Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, demanding that President Sukarno disband the…