10 January 1952While in Washington Churchill allows US bases on British soilWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill
While in Washington Churchill allows US bases on British soil
Historical records for Great Britain in 1952, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
While in Washington Churchill allows US bases on British soil
Anti-British riots follow after British forces seize the police HQ at Ismailia
Anti-British riots follow after British forces seize the police HQ at Ismailia
Anti-British riots follow British forces seize the police HQ at Ismailia
The Shepheard Hotel is burnt down killing 17 people during anti-British demonstrations
The Shepheard Hotel is burnt down killing 17 people during anti-British demonstrations
Appointed High Commissioner of Malaya, committed to defeating the communist insurgents
Attends the Accession Council which proclaims Queen Elizabeth II
Death of George VI, her husband
Death of George VI, hears of death in a tree-tops hut in the Aberdare Forest, Kenya
Death of George VI, only 56
Elizabeth II becomes monarch and head of state for Montserrat
Attends the Accession Council which proclaims Queen Elizabeth II
Succeeds as Queen of Great Britain, Succeeds George II after his death. Both Houses of Parliament take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth II
Healey wins the Leeds South East by-election and enters the House of Commons.
Healey enters Parliament after winning the Leeds South East by-election for Labour.
Birth of Jean-Jacques Burnel, later bassist, vocalist and founding member of The Stranglers.
Identity cards are abolished
Healey is elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Leeds South East at a by-election with a majority of 7000 votes.
Churchill has a small arterial spasm
Appointed the 1st Secretary General of NATO
Appointed the 1st Secretary General of NATO
Please "guilty", in spite of the fact that he felt no remorse or guilt for having committed acts of homosexuality, Turing is convicted and given a choice between imprisonment and probation, which would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido, accepts treatment via injections of stilboestrol, a synthetic oestrogen
Birth of Gary Moore
Publishes The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Birth of Joe Strummer, born John Mellor
Visit of King Faisal of Iraq
John Lennon starts at Quarry Bank High School. John Lennon starts at Liverpool College of Art where he meets Cynthia Powell, his future wife, and Stuart Sutcliffe
John Lennon starts at Liverpool College of Art where he meets Cynthia Powell, his future wife, and Stuart Sutcliffe
John Lennon starts at Liverpool College of Art where he meets Cynthia Powell, his future wife, and Stuart Sutcliffe
John Lennon starts at Liverpool College of Art where he meets Cynthia Powell, his future wife, and Stuart Sutcliffe
The 1st British nuclear bomb is exploded
The first British nuclear bomb is exploded
Britain explodes its first atomic bomb off Australia and becomes the third member of the nuclear club
Great Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, becoming the third state to test a nuclear weapon.
Opens the Claerwen Dam
Labour conference criticises the Bevanite group as a party within a party.
Britain tests its atom bomb in the Monte Bello Islands off nth-west Australia
The Bill for the denationalzation of steel is introduced into the House of Commons
Winner of a BAFTA for best actress for her part in A Streetcar Named Desire
Wins the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for The Sound Barrier
Becomes the central figure of the Labour left.
Helps establish the Blue Ribbon Club, a Conservative student group whose emblem links the United States, Commonwealth and Europe.
Makes international debut against India
Uses numerical and computational thinking to explore non-linear biological pattern formation and the onset of instability.
Sellers plays Major Bloodnok in the Goon-related comedy Down Among the Z Men.
Proposes the "Robot" scheme to float the pound & allow exchange rates "to take the strain"
Sterling is floated by Rab Butler prior to his 1952 Buget
Sterling is floated by Rab Butler prior to his 1952 Buget
Healey builds a parliamentary reputation through speeches on defence, Europe and international security.
Becomes associated with the Labour revisionist wing around Hugh Gaitskell.
Publication of "Hemlock & After"
Publication of "Hitler, A Study in Tyranny"
Elizabeth II officially declares her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that my descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor"
Sets a target of 260,000 houses for 1953 & 300,000 houses for 1954. Announces 1,000 more houses are being built per week than under the Labour Government
Directs Hunted
Publishes In Place of Fear.
Publishes In Place of Fear, setting out his socialist politics.
Stars as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in the 1952 film Ivanhoe, dying in a duel with Robert Taylor while professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor
Influences Labour left activists and MPs.
Wins election to Labour's National Executive Committee as a constituency representative.
Directs, "Limelight"
Begins serving as a director of the London Municipal Society while continuing his parliamentary career.
Appointed Lord President of the Council
Healey begins his parliamentary career as a Labour specialist on defence and foreign affairs.
Marries Margaret Pamela Wilson; the couple later have two daughters.
Healey is elected Member of Parliament for Leeds South East.
Publication of "Men at Arms"
Uses the term morphogens for interacting chemical substances whose reaction and diffusion can organise developing biological form.
Publication of "Old Men Forget", an autobiography
Publication of "Old Men Forget", an autobiography
Publication of "Other Minds"
Under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith began her career as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse
Becomes, in the Scottish Peerage, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick and Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland
The Duke of Cornwall is now the heir apparent to the throne. Charles mother assumes the throne, becoming Queen Elizabeth II, Charles immediately becomes Duke of Cornwall under a charter of King Edward III, which gave that title to the Sovereigns eldest son, and is then referred to as His Royal Highnes
Created Viscount Cooper
FWA Footballer of the Year
Begins keeping a detailed political diary during his years in opposition.
Advocates progressive social reforms from the Labour back benches.
Co-authors The Social Services: Needs and Means with Iain Macleod, examining Conservative approaches to social policy.
Appointed Queen Mother after her daughter Elizabeth succeeds to the throne
Shows mathematically how interacting chemical substances that diffuse at different rates can generate spatial biological patterns.
A 1-0 result over Arsenal brings Newcastle United the trophy under Seymour.
Composes Sinfonia Antarctica, drawing on music written for the film Scott of the Antarctic
Analyses conditions under which reaction-diffusion systems can produce stationary wave-like patterns in a ring of cells.
Charles mother assumes the throne, becoming Queen Elizabeth II, Charles immediately becomes Duke of Cornwall under a charter of King Edward III, which gave that title to the Sovereigns eldest son, and is then referred to as His Royal Highnes
Such Such Were the Joys is published after his death.
Stars in The Prisoner of Zenda
Stars in, "The Thief", nominated for a Golden Globe
Appointed player-manager at Brentford
The Un-American Activities House Commitee forbids Chaplain entry into the USA
Ends his first post-war period as editor of Tribune.
Explains how a homogeneous chemical state can become unstable and develop organised spatial structure after small disturbances.
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