January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Day of death September 5, 1952
The temperature on September 5, 1952 was between 8.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
October 20 » The Governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
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