August 1952
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August 1, 1952 (Friday)
- Born: Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician (d. 2003)
- Died: Andrew Higgins, American businessman (b. 1886)
August 2, 1952 (Saturday)
- Born: Arthur "Art" James, American baseball player
- Died:
- Charles K. French, American actor, film director, and screenwriter (b. 1860)
- J. Farrell MacDonald, American actor and director (b. 1875)
August 3, 1952 (Sunday)
- Born: Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine association football player and manager
August 4, 1952 (Monday)
- Born:
- Estanislau da Silva, East Timorese politician
- Moya Brennan, Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
August 5, 1952 (Tuesday)
The Treaty of Taipei between Japan and the Republic of China goes into effect, to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- Born:
- Hun Sen, 30th Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Louis Walsh, Irish music producer, reality TV show judge
- Died: Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear physicist (b. 1917)
August 6, 1952 (Wednesday)
- Born:
- Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Louis Walsh, Irish music producer, reality TV show judge
- Died:
- Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
- Francis Pegahmagabow, Canadian military officer (b. 1889)
August 7, 1952 (Thursday)
- Born: Alexei Sayle, English comedian
August 8, 1952 (Friday)
- Born:
- Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
- Robin Quivers, African-American radio personality (The Howard Stern Show)
August 9, 1952 (Saturday)
- Born: Vicki Morgan, American model (d. 1983)
August 10, 1952 (Sunday)
- Born: Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
August 11, 1952 (Monday)
- The Jordanian Parliament forces King Talal of Jordan to abdicate due to mental illness; he is succeeded by his son King Hussein of Jordan.[1]
- Born: Bob Mothersbaugh, American composer, guitarist (Devo)
- Died:
- Riccardo Martin, American tenor (b. 1874)
- Dave Sands, Australian boxer (b. 1926)
August 12, 1952 (Tuesday)
- Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 Soviet Jewish poets are executed.[2]
- Born:
- Daniel Biles, American associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
- Charlie Whiting - British motorsports director (d. 2019)
- Died: Peretz Markish, Soviet-born Israeli poet (b. 1895)
August 13, 1952 (Wednesday)
- Japan joins IMF, marking reintegration after World War II.[3]
- Born:
- Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
- Gary Gibbs – American football coach
August 14, 1952 (Thursday)
- West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.
August 15, 1952 (Friday)
- Died: Armida Barelli, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1882)
August 16, 1952 (Saturday)
- Born: Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
August 17, 1952 (Sunday)
- Born: Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player
August 18, 1952 (Monday)
- Born:
- Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer (Dirty Dancing) (d. 2009)
- Pete Richens, British screenwriter (d. 2018)
- Died:
- Alberto Hurtado, 20th-century Chilean Jesuit priest and social worker, later a saint (b. 1901)
- Ralph Byrd, American actor (b. 1909)
August 19, 1952 (Tuesday)
- Born: Jonathan Frakes, American director and actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
August 20, 1952 (Wednesday)
- Born:
- John Emburey, English Test and County cricketer
- Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
- John Hiatt, American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter
- Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
August 21, 1952 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Joe Strummer, British musician, singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2002)
- Jiří Paroubek, Czech minister of regional development of the CR, member of Czech Parliament (2006–2013) and prime minister of the CR
August 22, 1952 (Friday)
- The most damaging shock of the 1952 Kern County earthquake sequence strikes with a moment magnitude of 5.8, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This event damages several hundred buildings in Bakersfield, California, with total additional losses of $10 million, with two associated deaths and some injuries.[5]
- Died: Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1867)
August 23, 1952 (Saturday)
- Kitty Wells is the first woman to score a number 1 hit, with the song "It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels".
- Died: Henri Coutière, French zoologist, who specialized in the field of carcinology (b. 1869)
August 24, 1952 (Sunday)
- Born: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican-born musician, poet
August 25, 1952 (Monday)
- Born: Geoff Downes, British keyboardist (Asia)
August 26, 1952 (Tuesday)
- A British passenger jet makes a return crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the same day.
- Born:
- Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Jeter, American film, stage, and television actor (d. 2003)
- Died: Giovanni Cazzani, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1867)
August 27, 1952 (Wednesday)
- Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg: Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
- Born:
- Paul Reubens, American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian
- Roger Stone, American political consultant and lobbyist
August 28, 1952 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Rita Dove, American poet (1987 Pulitzer Prize, United States Poet Laureate 1993–95)
- Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
August 29, 1952 (Friday)
- Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.
- Died:
- Euphrasia Eluvathingal, Indian Carmelite nun and saint (b. 1877)
- Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche (b. 1894)
August 30, 1952 (Saturday)
- The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union.
- Died: Arky Vaughan, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1912)
August 31, 1952 (Sunday)
The Grenzlandring racetrack closes in Wegberg, Germany.
- Died: Henri Bourassa, Canadian political leader and publisher (b. 1868)
- Born:
- Eli Gorenstein, Israeli actor, voice actor and cellist
- Lee Hyla, American composer
- Hilary Farr, British-Canadian designer, businesswoman, television host and actress
References
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- ↑ Elliot House, Karen (6 September 2008). "The Art of Middle East Survival". 27 August 2013. Retrieved The Wall Street Journal. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Rubenstein, Joshua (2001). "Introduction." In: Rubenstein and Vladimir Naumov (Eds.), Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780300129397 Search this book on
.. p. 504.
- ↑ JAPAN’S HISTORY WITH THE IMF
- ↑ 1952: Flood devastates Devon village
- ↑ Stover & Coffman 1993, pp. 86, 87, 144–147
