The temperature on August 19, 1952 was between 12.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
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