April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death December 17, 1952
The temperature on December 17, 1952 was between 0.3 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
Day of burial December 20, 1952
The temperature on December 20, 1952 was between 2.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
March 21 » Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
July 21 » The 7.3 Mw Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
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".
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