The temperature on June 4, 1952 was between 4.8 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
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
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.
July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
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.
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