March 12, 1952 — Eisenhower announces his candidacy for President of the USA
Eisenhower didn’t originally want to run for President. He’d been repeatedly urged to by Harry Truman over the previous years,...
May 10, 2018
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July 1, 1952 — “The Liberace Show” is first broadcast
Liberace was one of the first of a new breed of entertainer in post war America. He saw that television...
May 7, 2018
September 23, 1952 – Rocky Marciano becomes world Heavyweight Champion
Rocky Marciano had been a professional boxer for only a little over four years when he defeated Jersey Joe Walcott...
May 5, 2018
November 1, 1952 — Einsteinium is first created
Einsteinium is a completely artifical element (atomic number 99) with a very short half-life (a about 1 and a third...
May 4, 2018
November 1, 1952 — The first full test of a Hydrogen bomb is made
The bomb was code-named “Ivy Mike”. It was the first test of the Teller-Ulam bomb design, which produced yield estimated...
May 4, 2018
March 12, 1953 — Ron Jeremy born
One of the stalwarts of the so-called ‘golden age of porn’ (i.e. the seventies and early eighties), Ronald Jeremy Hyatt...
May 1, 2018
March 15, 1953 — The first World Contact Day is held
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as...
April 30, 2018
April 13, 1953 — The CIA launches the MK-ULTRA project
CIA director Allen Dulles ordered the creation of the MKUltra project intending it to create techniques to fight what was...
April 28, 2018
June 2, 1953 — Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Technically, Elizabeth Windsor became the Queen of England as soon as her father, King George VI died on February 2...
April 24, 2018
June 17, 1953 — The East German Uprising peaks
Beginning as a strike by 300 construction workers in East Berlin on June 16, 1953, what would become known as...
April 14, 2018
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