1952
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1952.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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| Years: | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 |
Undated
- Event: The state of Israel offers Albert Einstein the office of president. He declines.
- Event: The Rocky Flats Plant opens.
- Event: Partial nuclear meltdown at Chalk River Laboratories. Navy engineers (including future US President Jimmy Carter) work frantic 90-second shifts racing against the limits of radiation and their own mortality to contain the meltdown.
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- June 17:
- Event: Death of John Whiteside Parsons by a Mercury fulminate explosion
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