What Happened in Oct 1952

1952 World Series

The 1952 World Series featured the three-time defending champion New York Yankees beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games. The Yankees won... Read more

United Kindgom tests its first atomic bomb to become the world's third nuclear power, code named Operation Hurricane

Operation Hurricane was the test of the first British atomic device on 3 October 1952. A plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon... Read more

Vladimir Putin is Born

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg, Russia), to parents... Read more

Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash

The hope that 1952 would prove to be a good year from the point of view of train accident casualties has been extinguished by the disaster at... Read more

"Ikiru" Is Released

Ikiru (生きる, "To Live"?) is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a Tokyo bureaucrat... Read more

Battle of Triangle Hill

The Battle of Triangle Hill, also known as Operation Showdown or the Shangganling Campaign (simplified Chinese: 上甘岭战役; pinyin: Shànggānlǐng... Read more

"Limelight" (film) is Released

Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster... Read more

Patricia Ann Reagan is Born

Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan on October 21, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is the daughter of former President of the United States... Read more