1952

Events

Dated Events

• Real World: February 6. Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England. The first mechanical heart is implanted in a human.

• Real World: February 26. The United Kingdom announces that they have the atomic bomb.

• Real World: April 28. The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ends with the Treaty of San Francisco.

• Real World: June 5. A sunken Viking ship is found off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts.

• Real World: November 1. First hydrogen bomb detonated by the U.S. at Bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

• Real World: November 4. Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President of the United States.

• Real World: December 1. The first successful sex-change operation is announced by the New York Daily News.

• Real World: December 4. The Great Smog of 1952 occurs in London. By the end, 12,000 people have died as a result; efforts to create clean-air laws follow in the next several years.

• Real World: December 14. In Ohio, Siamese twins are successfully separated for the first time.

New Fictional Works

Notable Books

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov, The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.

Notable Films

Against All Flags, At Sword's Point, The Boys from Brooklyn, The Crimson Pirate, Invasion USA, Ivanhoe, The Prisoner of Zenda, Radar Men from the Moon (serial), Red Planet Mars, Son of Ali Baba, The Story of Robin Hood, Unnatural, Zombies of the Stratosphere (serial).

Notable Television Series

• Beginning: The Adventures of Superman.

• Continuing: Captain Video and His Video Rangers (Season 4), Space Patrol (Season 3), Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (Season 3).

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