January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death April 15, 1952
The temperature on April 15, 1952 was between 9.9 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
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
July 7 » The ocean liner SSUnited States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
November 25 » Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
November 29 » 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.
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