• Jan 1 Massive Chinese and North Korean assault begins on UN lines

• Jan 2 Philip Barry's play "Second Threshold" premieres in New York City
• Jan 4 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul
• Jan 6 Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered
• Jan 6 Indianapolis Olympians beat Rochester Royals, 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes; also the longest game in NBA history
• Jan 9 Washington Capitals NBA team folds
• Jan 10 First jet passenger trip is made
• Jan 10 Maurice Richard scores his 16th career hat trick in the Montreal Canadiens' 3-0 win over NY Rangers to bring his career total to 274 goals; passes Howie Morenz as NHL's #2 all-time leading goal scorer
• Jan 13 Doctors' Plot: Nine Jewish Kremlin physicians are accused of being British and US intelligence agents
• Jan 13 German general Christian Hansen freed early from Dutch prison
• Jan 15 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
• Jan 15 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court
• Jan 15 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
• Jan 16 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
• Jan 16 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Texas, to 134th St, New York City)
• Jan 17 China refuses ceases-fire in Korea
• Jan 18 1951 NFL Draft: Kyle Rote from SMU first pick by New York Giants
• Jan 18 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
• Jan 18 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
• Jan 18 Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts, killing 2,942 people
• Jan 18 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
• Jan 18 NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
• Jan 22 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom

• Jan 23 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg win
• Jan 24 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
• Jan 27 US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
• Jan 28 "La Vie Commence Demain," the first X-rated movie depicting artificial insemination, opens in London
• Jan 28 American and Bermudan naturalist discover nesting site of Bermuda petrel, a sea bird also known as cahow; the species was thought extinct since 1615, but sporadic sightings spawned an expedition to some remote rocky crags off of Bermuda
• Jan 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Jan 29 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
• Jan 30 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

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• Feb 1 -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
• Feb 1 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
• Feb 1 Arms manufacturer Alfred Krupp (43) and 28 other convicted German war criminals granted amnesty
• Feb 1 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
• Feb 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; 1st live television broadcast of such detonation by KTLA in Los Angeles, California at 5:30 AM local time
• Feb 2 -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
• Feb 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 6 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84

• Feb 6 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago, Illinois
• Feb 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
• Feb 9 MLB St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige at age 45
• Feb 10 "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg, a parody of daytime soap operas which had only two voices repeating each other's names, peaks at #21 in the USA

• Feb 16 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
• Feb 16 San Francisco City Hall dome fire

• Feb 18 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
• Feb 18 Nepal becomes a constitutional monarchy
• Feb 18 Netherlands Radio School forms
• Feb 21 South Carolina House of Representatives urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated by Major League Baseball
• Feb 24 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
• Feb 24 Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
• Feb 25 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
• Feb 26 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia begins
• Feb 27 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms
• Feb 28 French government of Pleven dissolves
• Feb 28 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates

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• Mar 3 Bill Mikvy of Temple University scores NCAA basketball record 73 points, including 54 straight, in 93-69 win on the road at Wilkes College [1]
• Mar 6 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
Mar 7 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for 2nd time to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title, at the Olympia in Detroit, Michigan
• Mar 12 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
• Mar 12 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace" first appears in the British comic magazine "The Beano"
• Mar 12 Communist troops driven out of Seoul

• Mar 13 2nd Dutch government of Willem Drees forms
• Mar 13 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
• Mar 14 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
• Mar 15 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
• Mar 15 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War
• Mar 17 New Dutch government of Willem Drees takes power
• Mar 17 Test cricket debut of great English fast bowler Brian Statham, England v NZ at Christchurch; goes on to play 70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84
• Mar 18 William Grant Still's Symphony No. 4 ("Autochthonous"), premiere performance, by the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra with Victor Alessandro conducting
• Mar 19 Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" published (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
• Mar 20 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded
• Mar 20 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
• Mar 21 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
• Mar 23 Wages in France increase 11%
• Mar 25 5th Tony Awards: "Guys & Dolls" (musical) and "The Rose Tattoo" (play) win

• Mar 25 Edward Mills Purcell and Harold I. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
• Mar 30 First performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony commissioned to mark the University of Minnesota's centennial, debuts by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti conducting

Mar 31 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea

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• Apr 2 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower assumes command of NATO as the first Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

• Apr 5 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
• Apr 7 American Bowling Congress begins first Masters Tournament
• Apr 7 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll

• Apr 11 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea

• Apr 12 Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day
• Apr 15 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
• Apr 16 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75

• Apr 18 France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
• Apr 19 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
• Apr 20 4th Cannes Film Festival: "Miss Julie" directed by Alf Sjoberg and "Miracle in Milan" directed by Vittorio De Sica jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
• Apr 20 Huge ticker-tape parade held in NYC for World War II and Korean War General Douglas MacArthur after he was relieved of Command by President Truman

• Apr 20 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
• Apr 20 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
• Apr 21 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-2 for a 4-1 series victory

• Apr 28 Mohammad Mossadegh elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Parliament of Iran (Majlis)

• Apr 29 China seizes the assets of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, a joint venture between the Shell and Royal Dutch oil companies in retaliation for the Hong Kong Government's requisitioning of the tanker Yung Hao

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• May 1 600,000 people march for peace and freedom in Berlin, Germany
• May 1 Dutch Reformed Church introduces a new church choir
• May 1 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Mickey Mantle hits first career home run in 8-3 win v White Sox in Chicago; Minnie Miñoso homers in Sox debut
• May 3 New York Yankees Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning; 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)

• May 3 Royal Festival Hall opens in London
• May 3 The Festival of Britain opens
• May 6 Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Cliff Chambers no-hits the Boston Braves, 3-0 at Braves Field, Boston
• May 7 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
• May 7 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Conrad Richter, for his novel "The Town"
• May 8 Dacron men's suits introduced
• May 8 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
• May 9 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
• May 10 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
• May 11 American engineer Jay Forrester applies for a patent for magnetic core memory
• May 14 "The Ernie Kovacs Show", a television variety program debuts on NBC-TV
• May 15 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078

• May 15 Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum
• May 16 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport) and Heathrow Airport (London), operated by El Al Israel Airlines
• May 18 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
• May 21 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
• May 23 Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed in Beijing, formally establishes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet
• May 24 Racial segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants ruled illegal
• May 24 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)
• May 25 New York Giants outfielder Willie Mays (20) plays 1st major league game, an 8-5 win over the Phillies at Shibe Park in Philadelphia; he bats 0 for 5
• May 26 Vaughan Williams' "Pilgrim's Progress" premieres in London

• May 28 After starting MLB career going 0-for-12, New York Giants Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run in a 4-1 loss to the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• May 28 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Utrecht and Titular Archbishop of Tyana
May 28 Radio program "Crazy People" (later titled The Goon Show) premieres on the BBC, created by Spike Milligan

• May 28 The Jerry Colonna Show debuts on ABC-TV
• May 29 First solo flight over the North Pole in a single-engine plane is completed by pilot Charles F. Blair Jr., in a modified P-5 Mustang, equipped with extra fuel tanks; flight covers 3,260 nonstop miles from Bardufoss, Norway, to Fairbanks, Alaska
• May 30 Ezzard Charles defeats Joey Maxim in a 15-round unanimous decision for heavyweight boxing title
• May 31 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord

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• Jun 1 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
• Jun 1 International Cheese treaty signed
• Jun 1 Massey Commission issues its landmark report in Canada, advocating for funding wide range of cultural activities (resulted in the founding of the National Library of Canada) [1]
• Jun 2 Clifford Odet's stage drama "The Country Girl", starring Uta Hagen closs at the Lyceum Theatre, NYC, after 235 performances

• Jun 2 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones

• Jun 4 Pirate's' Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4
• Jun 9 "Doodles Weaver Show" debuts on NBC-TV
• Jun 11 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
• Jun 11 NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off unclaimed items left behind on the trains
• Jun 13 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
• Jun 14 UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, enters service at the Census Bureau

• Jun 18 Charles De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election

• Jun 18 In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences
• Jun 20 Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox

• Jun 20 Fist major revision of Canada's Indian Act; removes political, cultural and religious restrictions for First Nations Peoples, like the potlatch and sun dance [1]
• Jun 22 Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch morning show premieres on NBC radio
• Jun 23 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
• Jun 23 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
• Jun 24 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations

• Jun 25 First color TV broadcast, Arthur Godfrey hosts a musical variety special titled "Premiere" from CBS NYC to a network of five East Coast cities

• Jun 28 American radio sitcom about black characters "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV
• Jun 30 "Victor Borge Show" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 30 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination

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• Jul 1 Cleveland Indians veteran hurler Bob Feller pitches his 3rd career no-hitter beating Detroit Tigers, 2-1
• Jul 2 "Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio
• Jul 2 Bill Veeck buys MLB's St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt. After the 1953 season, he sells the franchise to Clarence Miles, who moves the team to Baltimore, where it becomes the Orioles. 

• Jul 5 Invention of the junction transistor announced at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey; development led by William Shockley, with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, who share the Nobel Physics Prize in 1956

• Jul 8 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud after Stengel pulls DiMaggio out of game
• Jul 9 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
• Jul 10 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict begin in Kaesong
• Jul 12 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
• Jul 12 NY Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds throws no-hitter in Cleveland against the Indians, his former team, in a 1-0 win
• Jul 13 Great Flood: 2,000,000 acres in Kansas and Missouri in central US are flooded by rain-swollen Missouri and Kansas Rivers
• Jul 14 First color telecast of a sporting event (CBS - horse race)
• Jul 14 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by four lengths to become American racing's first millionaire horse

• Jul 16 Len Hutton scores his 100th century, Yorkshire vs. Surrey at The Oval
• Jul 16 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favor of his son Baudouin I
• Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger is published by Little Brown and Company

• Jul 18 Uruguay accepts its constitution
• Jul 20 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem
• Jul 20 Talal bin Abdullah (42) is coronated as King of Jordan, after the assassination of his father
• Jul 22 General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
• Jul 26 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
• Jul 28 Walt Disney releases the animated musical film "Alice in Wonderland," featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O'Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway, with songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard

• Jul 30 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party wins the Israeli parliamentary election

• Jul 31 Japan Airlines is established

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• Aug 3 William Harding Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Aug 5 Uprising by Moluccan soldiers from Indonesia at Ambonese Camp, Netherlands
• Aug 6 The National Museum of Racing opens in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, NY
• Aug 6 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
• Aug 7 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h (1,237.77 mph)
• Aug 7 The US Viking rocket reaches a height of 210 km, setting a record
• Aug 9 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Presidential Unit Citation
• Aug 11 First televised baseball game in color airs on WCBS in New York City; Boston Braves beat Brooklyn Dodgers 8-1
• Aug 11 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Rough Riders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
• Aug 11 NY Giants lose 4-0 to Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC, to fall 13½ games behind Brooklyn Dodgers; go on to win NL pennant with a 98-59-0 record
• Aug 13 Great Britain and Iraq sign a new oil contract

• Aug 14 "A Place in the Sun," a film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," directed by George Stevens and starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, premieres in Los Angeles, California; it wins six Academy Awards, including Best Director, in 1952

• Aug 17 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180 attendees)
• Aug 17 Hurricane winds drive six ships ashore in Kingston, Jamaica

• Aug 17 The 14th Dalai Lama returns to Lhasa from Dromo in southwestern Tibet after Chinese officials assure him that Tibetan autonomy and his position will be respected [1]

• Aug 22 Harlem Globetrotters play at Olympic Stadium in Berlin before 75,052 spectators
• Aug 24 Bill Veeck's MLB St. Louis Browns hold "Grandstand Manager's Day" as coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on strategy options; Browns defeat visiting A's 5-3
• Aug 25 MLB Cleveland Indians win 16th consecutive home game
• Aug 26 Dutch professor Jacob Jongbloed demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris

• Aug 26 The film "An American in Paris," with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in London (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1952)
• Aug 28 MLB Boston Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the New York Yankees for $50,000
• Aug 28 Pirates snap NY Giants' 16-game winning streak
• Aug 30 The US and the Philippines sign a mutual defense pact

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• Sep 1 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders establishment of the secret service Mossad
• Sep 1 US, Australia, and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
• Sep 3 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," starring Mary Stuart and Larry Haines, debuts on CBS
• Sep 4 First transcontinental TV broadcast by US President Harry Truman
• Sep 4 NBC extends to become a 61-station coast-to-coast network

• Sep 4 US President Harry Truman addresses the opening of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
• Sep 8 Japan signs a peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco

• Sep 8 Pope Pius XII publishes the encyclical Sempiternus Rex, commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of the Council of Chalcedon and reaffirming its doctrine that Christ is one person in two natures, divine and human
• Sep 9 First broadcast of the soap opera "Love of Life" on CBS TV
• Sep 10 Britain begins an economic boycott of Iran

• Sep 11 Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes

• Sep 11 Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress," with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
• Sep 13 St. Louis Cards beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12), then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
• Sep 14 St. Louis Browns' Bob Nieman homers on his 1st two career at-bats
• Sep 15 Emil Zátopek runs a men's 20,000m world record in 1:01:15.8

• Sep 15 GUS LEONISKY DRAWS HIS FIRST POLITICAL CARTOONS ABOUT THE POLICE AND THE MILITARY.

• Sep 15 Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical "Ingruentium Malorum" on the recitation of the Rosary
• Sep 16 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players
• Sep 17 Romanian bishop A. Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years

• Sep 18 "A Streetcar Named Desire," a film directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theatre, NYC

• Sep 18 "The Day the Earth Stood Still," a science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and starring Michael Rennie, premieres
• Sep 19 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase across the country

• Sep 20 Swiss men vote against female suffrage
• Sep 21 Emil Zátopek runs a 15,000 m world record in 44 minutes and 54.6 seconds
• Sep 24 Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England
• Sep 24 USSR performs a nuclear test
• Sep 26 Professor Youngblood demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
• Sep 27 Persian troops occupy oil refinery at Abadan

• Sep 28 Allie Reynolds of New York pitches his second no-hitter of 1951 in an 8-0 home victory over the Boston Red Sox as the Yankees clinch their 18th pennant
• Sep 28 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for an NFL record 554 yards
• Sep 29 American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovers Ananke, the 12th moon of Jupiter, from Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles County, California
• Sep 29 CBS broadcasts the first football game in color, featuring the University of California against the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
• Sep 29 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile

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• Oct 1 24th Infantry Regiment, the last all-black US military unit, is deactivated
• Oct 1 First treaty signed by woman ambassador, Eugenie Anderson, US ambassador to Denmark
• Oct 2 First TV broadcast in the Netherlands (Toverspiegel)
• Oct 3 Bobby Thomson hits a 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the bottom of the 9th inning with 1 out, giving the New York Giants a dramatic 5-4 playoff win and the NL pennant at the Polo Grounds
• Oct 3 CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight as Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints American Carl "Bobo" Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium
• Oct 5 Jackie Gleason debuts the character of bus driver Ralph Kramden in the first "The Honeymooners" skit on Cavalcade of Stars

• Oct 6 Joseph Stalin announces that the Soviet Union has an atomic bomb
• Oct 7 David Ben-Gurion forms Israel's third government
• Oct 14 NFL Detroit Lions Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs Los Angeles Rams
• Oct 14 Organization of Central American States formsOct 6 Joseph Stalin announces that the Soviet Union has an atomic bomb 6

• Oct 15 "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, debuts on CBS television
Oct 15 First synthesis of an oral contraceptive (norethindrone) is achieved by Luis E. Miramontes under the direction of Carl Djerassi and George Rosenkranz at the Mexican drug company Syntex

• Oct 16 The first prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated by Said Akbar in Rawalpindi
• Oct 17 Egyptian army fires on British soldiers
• Oct 18 USSR performs a nuclear test
• Oct 19 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
• Oct 20 The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs during a football game in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where an African-American quarterback from Drake University suffers a broken jaw in a violent attack by Oklahoma A&M defenders [1]
• Oct 22 A series of earthquakes strike Taiwan, killing at least 118 people; earthquakes continue to December
• Oct 22 US performs nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
• Oct 23 English chemist Rosalind Franklin first identifies the two types of carbon produced by temperature, in paper published by the Royal Society [1]

• Oct 24 Jan de Hartog's "Four Poster" premieres in New York City
• Oct 24 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
• Oct 25 Peace talks resume at Panmunjom to end the Korean War
• Oct 26 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
• Oct 26 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76
• Oct 28 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina wins Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes in an Alfa Romeo by 6 points from Alberto Ascari of Italy
• Oct 28 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 30 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 31 French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan

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• Nov 1 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
• Nov 1 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico
• Nov 4 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
• Nov 4 Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
• Nov 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 7 Constitution of Jordan passes
• Nov 10 First long-distance telephone call without operator assistance
• Nov 13 Janet Collins is the first 1st African-American dancer to appear at the Metropolitan Opera, in a production of Aida
• Nov 15 NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 17 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system
• Nov 18 "See it Now" premieres on TV
• Nov 18 British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
• Nov 18 Former Chicago Cubs first baseman and future TV star of "The Rifleman" Chuck Connors is first player to oppose the major league draft
• Nov 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 20 Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
• Nov 24 British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
• Nov 25 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
• Nov 25 Cleveland Browns halfback Dub Jones ties the NFL record for most touchdowns in a game with 6 (4 rushing, 2 catches) in 42-21 win over Chicago Bears at Cleveland Stadium
• Nov 25 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
• Nov 25 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
• Nov 27 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico
• Nov 27 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea
• Nov 29 A military coup led by Adib Shishakli forces the existing Syrian government to resign
• Nov 29 Operation Buster-Jangle: First underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat, Nevada, codenamed "Uncle"

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• Dec 1 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton halfback
Dec 1 The Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds of 69 mph

• Dec 4 Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government
• Dec 4 Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, killing 500 people
• Dec 8 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
• Dec 9 West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
Dec 11 "The Wild Side of Life" single recorded by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year, 1952)
• Dec 11 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball
• Dec 16 NBC premiere of "Dragnet" in black and white
• Dec 17 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
• Dec 19 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
• Dec 20 Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Dec 21 Pioneering telenovela "Sua Vida Me Pertence" premieres in Brazil
• Dec 22 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
• Dec 23 Last Belgian communities get electricity
• Dec 23 National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game
• Dec 24 First opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
• Dec 24 The United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy through the United Nations
• Dec 25 West Indies wrap up 6 wicket defeat of Australia on first Christmas Day of Test cricket, the 3rd day of 3rd Test at the Adelaide Oval
Dec 26 "The African Queen", directed by John Huston and based on the 1935 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is released in LA, California (Academy Awards Best Actor 1952)

• Dec 30 "The Roy Rogers Show", American Western television series starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans debuts on NBC; runs for 6 seasons
• Dec 31 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electricity announced

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