October 1952 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
• 03 Oct 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
• 04 Oct 1952 Top Banana closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
• 05 Oct 1952 19th Congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
• 07 Oct 1952 1st Bandstand broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
• 08 Oct 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea
• 12 Oct 1952 KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 14 Oct 1952 Buttrio Square opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 16 Oct 1952 ''Limelight'' opens in London writer/actor/director/producer Charlie Chaplin arrives by ocean liner in transit his re-entry permit to the USA is revoked by J. Edgar Hoover.
• 17 Oct 1952 Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council Sukarno avoids confrontation.
• 18 Oct 1952 Buttrio Square closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances
• 19 Oct 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
• 20 Oct 1952 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
• 21 Oct 1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
• 24 Oct 1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria.
• 25 Oct 1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine Donald Duck
• 30 Oct 1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
• 31 Oct 1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

Famous Birthday

• Vladimir Putin

  Russian politician, taking the office of President on 3/26/2000, replacing Yeltsin who resigned the prior December 31st, ailing and being...

• Imran Khan

  Pakistani cricketer and politician.

• Jeff Goldblum

  American actor.

• Sharon Osbourne

  British noted family, the wife of rocker wild-man Ozzy Ozbourne.

• Roberto Benigni

  Italian actor, the star, co-author and director of "Life Is Beautiful," 1998, a film which earned seven Oscar nominations including Best...

• Dan Ar Wern
• Patti Davis

  American writer and noted family, the daughter of Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Davis.

• Caroline Casey

  American astrologer, a cultural mythologist and political analyst who speaks to the healing of the individual and the collective.

• Clive Barker

  British artist and writer, the prolific author of short stories, plays, novels and screenplays, and a painter and illustrator.

• Jane Wymark
• Duncan Regehr

  Canadian figure skater and actor.

• Annie Potts

  American actress of supporting and light leading roles.

• Ron Taylor (actor)
• Laurent Maréchaux
• Gérard Dubrac
• Pippa Guard

  Scottish award winning actress at RADA before her debut in 1978 on "The Mill on the Floss.

• Harry Anderson

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Edward Zwick

  American director producer and screenwriter.

• Chuck Lorre

  American T.V.

• Henry Padovani
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Famous Deaths

• Frederick Jacobi

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Sergei Bortkiewicz

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Alfred Neumann

  German writer, dies at 56.

• Joe Jagersberger

  Austrian racing driver (Born 1884).

• Ernst Rudin

  Swiss nazi physician (Born 1874).

• U Chit Hlaing

  Burmese politician (Born 1879).

• Hans Merensky

  South African geologist and philanthropist (Born 1871).

• Joe Adams

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1952).

• Hattie McDaniel

  American singer and actress (Born 1895).

• Basil Radford

  Actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55.

• Hattie McDaniel

  American singer and actress (Born 1895).

• Susan Peters

  Spokane, Washington -- Actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Standley - It's In The Book (Part 1 & 2)
2. Eddie Fisher - Outside of Heaven
3. Frankie Laine - Mermaid
4. Joni James - Why Don't You Believe Me
5. Vera Lynn - Yours (Quierme Mucho)