May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of death February 11, 1952
The temperature on February 11, 1952 was between -2.3 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
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