Multimedia Fifties 1952 - The retro news, history and fashion of the 1950s

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1950s History

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The Nation 1952

U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea
Chinese offensive in Korea

President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike

General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)

Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

President Truman settles 53-day steel strike

George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL

University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US Nobel prizes 1952

Physics – Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
Chemistry – Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
Medicine – Selman Abraham Waksman
Literature – François Mauriac
Peace – Albert Schweitzer

time magazine 1952

"In cynical 1952, Britons and Americans alike were often too plagued by doubt to venture beyond the safeties of their past. In Elizabeth II, by God's grace Queen, Defender of the Faith, each might see a reminder of what was old and splendid, and also a fresh, imperative summons to make the present worthy of remembrance." Time Person of the Year - Queen Elizabeth II

The World 1952

Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb

Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India

Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)

Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth

1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia

Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die

Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation

The Class of 1952