The events of 1952
- 01 February 1952
The first TV Licence detector vans hit the streets.
- 06 February 1952
Royal Family – The nation morns as His Majesty, King George VI, dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House.
- 06 February 1952
U.S. – A mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.
- 08 February 1952
Royal Family – Princess Elizabeth formally proclaimed as Queen Elizabeth II.
- 14 February 1952
Olympics – the 1952 Winter Olympics opens in Oslo, Norway.
- 15 February 1952
Royal Family – The Funeral of King George VI takes place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- 21 February 1952
Prime Minister Winston Churchill abolishes compulsory national Identity Cards.
- 26 February 1952
Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces to the nation that the UK has an atomic bomb.
- 04 March 1952
Celebrity Wedding – In the U.S. – Actor Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.
- 30 April 1952
The moving Diaries of Anne Frank are published in the UK – Anne Frank Diary
- 02 May 1952
The ‘Jet’ age has arrived – The world’s first commercial jet airliner The Comet takes off for its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg.
- 16 July 1952
U.S. – UFO sightings and radar trackings over Washington D.C. – U.S. Jets are scrambled.
- 19 July 1952
Olympics – The 1952 Summer Olympic Games open n Helsinki, Finland.
- 26 July 1952
Eva Peron, the wife of the Argentine president has died aged 33.
- 16 August 1952
Floods devastate Lynmouth in North Devon many feared dead.
- 06 September 1952
Farnborough Air Show disaster scores of people dead and injured.
- 03 October 1952
Food Rationing – The Government announces the end to the rationing of Tea.
- 04 November 1952
U.S. – Republican Dwight D Eisenhower wins the U.S. presidential election.
- 25 November 1952
The Mousetrap a murder-mystery play by Agatha Christie opens in London at the Ambassadors Theatre. Agatha Christies The Mousetrap.
- 01 December 1952
Christine Jorgensen a transsexual woman in Denmark is thought to be the first successful recipient of sexual reassignment operation.
- 09 December 1952
Britain starts to return to normal as the Great Smog lifts.
- 25 December 1952
Royal Family – The Queens Speech – Queen Elizabeth II makes her first Christmas Speech.
