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1952 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2036. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1952 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1952

• January 27, 1952 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• February 21, 1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
• April 8, 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
• May 3, 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
• May 13, 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• May 28, 1952 – The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
• July 3, 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
• July 26, 1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
• September 15, 1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
• October 14, 1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.

Who Were Born On 1952?

• January 17, 1952 – Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• January 18, 1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter
• January 27, 1952 – Billy Johnson, American football player and coach
• March 4, 1952 – Svend Robinson, American-Canadian lawyer and politician
• August 12, 1952 – Kalevi Kull, Estonian biologist and academic
• August 31, 1952 – Herbert Reul, German politician
• September 13, 1952 – Iyanla Vanzant, American author and educator
• October 5, 1952 – Duncan Regehr, Canadian figure skater and actor
• October 24, 1952 – Ángel Torres, Dominican baseball player
• November 18, 1952 – Claudio Capone, Italian voice actor (d. 2008)