November 1952 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1952 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
• 03 Nov 1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
• 04 Nov 1952 Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America
• 10 Nov 1952 Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st Secretary General of UN
• 12 Nov 1952 Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
• 13 Nov 1952 False fingernails 1st sold
• 14 Nov 1952 Greek general Papagos wins elections
• 18 Nov 1952 Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for an alleged connection to the Mau Mau uprising.
• 19 Nov 1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 km/h
• 20 Nov 1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
• 21 Nov 1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
• 25 Nov 1952 George Meany appointed as Chairman of AFL
• 26 Nov 1952 1st modern 3-D movie Bwana Devil, premieres in Hollywood
• 27 Nov 1952 KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 29 Nov 1952 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
• 30 Nov 1952 Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism

Famous Birthday

• David Ho

  Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher.

• Mandy Patinkin

  American actor, tenor singer, voice artist, and comedian.

• Thierry Lhermitte

  French popular actor, son of André and nephew of professor François Lhermitte, also great grand-son of Léon Lhermitte, painter.

• Roseanne Barr

  American comedian from a lower middle-class background who became a superstar comedienne on a popular TV series with the comment, "I am your...

• Michel Boujenah

  French humourist, comedian, film director, and screenwriter, born in a jewish tunisian family.

• David Petraeus

  American former military officer and public official, the son of an American mother and a Dutch father.

• Lorna Luft

  American actress, singer, dancer and member of a noted family, the daughter of Judy Garland and Sid Luft, half-sister to Liza Minnelli.

• Kama Sywor Kamanda
• Bill Walton

  American basketball center who paced the UCLA Bruins, at the time called "Walton's Gang," to NCAA Crowns in 1972 and 1973.

• Jeff Fahey

  American actor and producer.

• Shigeru Miyamoto

  Japanese video game designer.

• Antero Alli

  Finnish-American astrologer, writes for journals.

• Alfre Woodard

  American actress.

• Alfre Woodard

  American actress.

• Guy Delage
• Christie Hefner

  American publishing executive and noted family, the daughter of Hugh Hefner.

• Randy Savage

  American professional wrestler.

• Rachel Chagall

  American actress.

• S Epatha Merkerson

  American actress.

• Jan Raas

  Dutch road cyclist racer (1975-85), sprinter, born to a farmer who had 10 children.

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Famous Deaths

• Aaro A Hellaakoski

  Finnish geographer / poet, dies at 59.

• Albert van Raalte

  Conductor (Radio Philharmonic Orch), dies at 62.

• Antonio Guarnieri

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Rosa Lewis

  English chef / owner (Cavendish Hotel London).

• Vladimir N Ipatiev

  Russian / US chemist, dies at 85.

• Margaret Wise Brown

  American children's author (Born 1910).

• Dixie Lee American actress

  dancer, and singer (Born 1911).

• Benedetto Croce

  Italian philosopher, critic and historian.

• William Green

  American union leader, president of the AFL for 12 years, while membership declined from four million in 1930 to half that number by 1933.

• Sven Hedin

  Swedish explorer and map maker who provided the first maps and information about areas in Central Asia, as he led expeditions to and through...

• Philip Murray

  Scottish-American labor leader, the head of the CIO and President 1940-52 and President of U.S.

• Chaim Weizmann

  Russian born chemist and Zionist leader and the first President of Israel, a largely ceremonial post from 17 February 1949 to his death 9...

• Paul Eluard

  French communist / poet, dies at 56.

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Top #2 songs in the USA

1. Don Cornell - I
2. Les Paul - Lady Of Spain

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Al Martino - Here In My Heart
2. Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me
3. Guy Mitchell - Feet Up
4. Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much
5. Bing Crosby - The Isle Of Innisfree