The temperature on January 7, 1952 was between 6.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
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.
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