1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.

From top to bottom, left to right: President Sukarno addressing protestors in front of the Merdeka Palace during the 17 October affair; supporters of the Bolivian National Revolution; a tsunami produced by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Russia that killed 2,336 people reaches Midway Atoll; The Catalina shot down by Soviet forces while searching for the missing Hugin; the 1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway; The leaders of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution; the signing of Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany; Elizabeth II becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1952 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1952
MCMLII
Ab urbe condita2705
Armenian calendar1401
ԹՎ ՌՆԱ
Assyrian calendar6702
Baháʼí calendar108–109
Balinese saka calendar1873–1874
Bengali calendar1359
Berber calendar2902
British Regnal year16 Geo. 6 – 1 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2496
Burmese calendar1314
Byzantine calendar7460–7461
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4649 or 4442
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4650 or 4443
Coptic calendar1668–1669
Discordian calendar3118
Ethiopian calendar1944–1945
Hebrew calendar5712–5713
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2008–2009
 - Shaka Samvat1873–1874
 - Kali Yuga5052–5053
Holocene calendar11952
Igbo calendar952–953
Iranian calendar1330–1331
Islamic calendar1371–1372
Japanese calendarShōwa 27
(昭和27年)
Javanese calendar1883–1884
Juche calendar41
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4285
Minguo calendarROC 41
民國41年
Nanakshahi calendar484
Thai solar calendar2495
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
2078 or 1697 or 925
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
2079 or 1698 or 926
1952 Summer Olympic Games stamp
1952 Summer Olympic Games

Events edit

January–February edit

March–April edit

May–June edit

July–August edit

September–October edit

November–December edit

 
The explosion of the first hydrogen bomb.

Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January edit

 
Esperanza Aguirre
 
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
 
Sammo Hung
 
Marek Belka
 
Asma Jahangir

February edit

 
Park Geun-hye
 
Jenny Shipley
 
Lee Hsien Loong
 
Sushma Swaraj
 
Tomislav Nikolić

March edit

 
Harvey Weinstein

April edit

 
Annette O'Toole
 
Rosemarie Ackermann
 
Jean-Paul Gaultier

May edit

 
David Byrne
 
Mr. T
 
Anne-Marie David

June edit

 
Bronisław Komorowski
 
Liam Neeson
 
George Papandreou
 
John Goodman

July edit

 
Dan Aykroyd
 
Álvaro Uribe
 
Ahmed Nazif
 
Liz Mitchell
 
David Hasselhoff

August edit

 
Moya Brennan
 
Zoran Đinđić
 
Hun Sen
 
Joe Strummer
 
Patrick Swayze
 
Michael Jeter
 
Paul Reubens

September edit

 
Rishi Kapoor
 
Neil Peart
 
Nile Rodgers
 
Manuel Zelaya
 
Christopher Reeve

October edit

 
Vladimir Putin
 
Verónica Castro
 
Jeff Goldblum
 
Roberto Benigni

November edit

 
Roseanne Barr
 
Imran Khan

December edit

 
Michael Dorn
 
Allan Simonsen

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Curly Howard
 
Sveinn Björnsson

February edit

 
King George VI
 
King Knut Hamsun

March edit

 
Charles Scott Sherrington
 
Alexandra Kollontai

April edit

 
Ferenc Molnár

May edit

 
Maria Montessori

June edit

 
John Dewey
 
Felix Calonder

July edit

 
Eva Perón

August edit

 
Hiranuma Kiichirō

September edit

 
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg

October edit

 
Hattie McDaniel
 
Billy Hughes

November edit

 
Harold Innis
 
Chaim Weizmann

December edit

 
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
 
Karen Horney

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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