Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

* Henry Selick ( 1952 – ) American director and animator: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

Before the municipal reform of 1952 there were ten entities in the area.

Before the subdivision reform of 1952 there were seven entities in the area.

Before 1952 there were nine municipalities in the area.

Before the PCT was planned, Martin Papendick was the first known person to hike across the three states of the PCT in 1952.

Before that, four women were granted the title as individuals as Woman of the Year – Wallis Simpson in 1936, Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek ) in 1937, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, and Corazon Aquino in 1986.

* British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.

USSR / The Unified Team / Russia / Ukraine / Belarus / Armenia: Before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet gymnasts dominated both men's and women's gymnastics commencing with the introduction of the full women's program into the Olympics and the overall increased standardization of the Olympic Gymnastics competition format which happened in 1952.

Before the independence of India, he became Bombay's Home Minister and later was elected as Chief Minister of Bombay State in 1952.

Before this the conference published the Herold der Wahrheit, a semi-monthly publication, starting in 1912, and later the Missionary Bulletin, a quarterly, starting in 1952.

Before by the end of the 1950s, Huddersfield had won 3 Yorkshire cup finals, in 1950 / 51, 1952 / 53 and 1957 / 58, and the Challenge Cup final, in 1952 / 53.

Before traveling to Italy for a two-picture deal with Giuseppe Amato, Darnell was rushed into the production of Blackbeard the Pirate ( 1952 ), which — much to Darnell's distress — went far behind schedule.

* British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.

* The Night Before Christmas Song – 1952

Henry Selick ( born November 30, 1952 ) is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

* The Days Before, Harcourt Brace, 1952

Before the Red Beard codename was issued in 1952, it was frequently referred to in official documents as the " Javelin Bomb ", because it was originally conceived as a weapon for the " thin-wing Javelin bomber ", a projected derivative of the ( thick wing ) Gloster Javelin all-weather fighter.

Before that he was London bureau chief ( 1965 – 1972 ), Washington, D. C. bureau ( 1955 – 64 ), and deskman ( 1948 – 1952 ) all for the Times.

Before the mission of February 20, 1952, Gabreski and Whisner each had four MiGs credited as destroyed.

Before 1952 Gibson produced only hollow body guitars, which are prone to feedback when amplified loudly.

Before being occupied by Romanian troops in 1941, a part of the city's population, industry, infrastructure and all cultural valuables possible were evacuated to inner regions of the USSR, and the retreating Red Army units destroyed as much as they could of Odessa harbour facilities left behind.

Before and during episodes he and Styles provide insight into the storylines, inner workings, and general ambiance of ECW at the time — as they remember it.

Before and during a City Council meeting, he demanded an apology from Police Chief William H. Parker for Parker's having condemned some Latino residents of East Los Angeles as " not too far removed from the wild tribes of the inner mountains of Mexico.

Before making its cocoon, however, it takes the precautionary measure of advancing its tunnel close up to the inner bark, so that in its winged state it will have only to bite a way through this softer impediment to its liberty ; not that it is now incapable of dealing with anything firmer.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Before unification, German territory was made up of 27 constituent states.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

In addition to conflicts between his Spanish and German inheritances, conflicts of religion would be another source of tension during the reign of Charles V. Before Charles even began his reign in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1517, Martin Luther initiated what would later be known as the Reformation.

Before this planned attack he married a German girl named Ildico.

Before Windows 95 was released, OS / 2 Warp 3. 0 was even shipped preinstalled with several large German hardware vendor chains.

Before the end of November, the main German troops had withdrawn from Tirana, and the communists took control of the capital by fighting what was left from the German army.

Before this period, brewers used a wide variety of bitter herbs and flowers, including dandelion, burdock root, marigold, horehound ( the German name for horehound means " mountain hops "), ground ivy, and heather.

Before the end of World War II the town was predominantly German Protestant with Polish and Jewish minorities.

Names of those Masurs supporting Polish side were published in German newspapers, and their photos presented in German shops ; afterwards a regular hunts were organised after them by German militias which terrorized Polish population At least 3, 000 Warmian and Masurian activists who were engaged for Polish side had to flee the region out of fear of their lives At the same time German police engaged in active surveillance of Polish minority and attacks against Polish activists Before the plebiscite Poles started to flee the region to escape the German harassment and terror

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

Before that, the German question ruptured this " German unity " after the ' 48 Revolution before it was achieved, however ; Austria-Hungary as a multinational state could not become part of the new " German empire ", and nationality conflicts in Prussia with the Prussian Poles arose (" We can never be Germans-Prussians, every time!

* Before 1: 00 a. m .: German police raid an apartment in Hamburg, apparently at the behest of the FBI, believed to have been used by suspect passengers on the airline flight list.

Before 1939, German scientists occasionally contacted Goddard directly with technical questions.

Before World War I, in 1907, 54. 9 % of German workers were manual labourers.

Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German.

Before Operation Reinhard, over half a million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen, mobile extermination units, in territories conquered by the German army.