May 1952 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1952 Mr Potato Head, introduced
• 02 May 1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
• 03 May 1952 Call Me Madam closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
• 04 May 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open.
• 05 May 1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk
• 06 May 1952 Farouk of Egypt has himself announced as a descendant of prophet Muhammad.
• 08 May 1952 Of Thee I Sing opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
• 10 May 1952 Shuffle Along closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 12 May 1952 Charlton Playground named in Bronx
• 13 May 1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India.
• 15 May 1952 Detroit Tigers' pitcher Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0.
• 16 May 1952 New Faces (of 1952) opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
• 17 May 1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4.
• 18 May 1952 Professor WF Libby says Stonehenge dates back to 1848 BCE.
• 21 May 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
• 27 May 1952 European Defense Community forms.
• 28 May 1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
• 30 May 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves.

Famous Birthday

• Renaud (singer)
• Christian Clavier

  French actor, his brother Stéphane is a film director.

• Robert Zemeckis

  American film director.

• Robert Zemeckis

  American film director.

• David Byrne

  Scottish-American musician who was the leader and guitar player of the innovative rock band, "The Talking Heads.

• Mr T

  American actor.

• George Strait

  American famed country western star, winner of the Country Music Association's Best Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist of the Year...

• Christine Baranski

  Movie Actress.

• Martin Bouygues

  French busynessman, chairman and chief executive officer of Bouygues Company, specialized in construction and telecoms/media (private...

• Michel-Edouard Leclerc
• Jean Guidoni
• Shohreh Aghdashloo

  Iranian-American actress.

• Vittorio Sgarbi
• Jean-Michel Lambert

  French jurist, the examining magistrate in the Villemin case.

• Richard Baquié

  French sculptor.

• Isla St Clair

  Scottish singer and actress.

• Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont
• Frances Fisher

  English-American actress.

• Marc Cerrone

  French Grammy-award-winning musician, a drummer, singer and songwriter.

• Chazz Palminteri

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• John Garfield

  American actor who played in 31 films from 1938-1951.

• Walter Schellenberg

  German Nazi executive, leader of the S.D.

• Rossetter Gleason Cole

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Georg Alfred Schumann

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Giovanni Tebaldini

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Alberto Savinio

  Italian Composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60.

• Albert Basserman

  Actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84.

• Maria Montessori

  Italian educator who was the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree, in 1895.

• Canada Lee

  black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City, New York at age 45.

• William Fox

  Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (d. 1952).

• William Fox [Fried]

  American film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at age 73.

• Italo Montemezzi

  Composer, dies at 76.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tony Martin - Kiss Of Fire
2. Rosemary Clooney - Half as Much
3. Eddie Fisher - I'm Yours
4. Al Martino - Here in My Heart
5. Johnnie Ray - Walkin' My Baby Back Home