The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

By 1952 ‘ Liberation army ’, had invaded several towns in Oriente.

One of Sharon ’ s final operations before leaving the army in 1952 was the semi-successful Operation Bin Nun Alef into Jordan.

A colonel in the Egyptian army, Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 along with Muhammad Naguib, the first president, which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of modernization, and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism, including a short-lived union with Syria.

A short time later, in May 1952, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them ; thus, he immediately entrusted Zakaria Mohieddine with the task of drawing up plans for a takeover of the government by army units loyal to the association.

Preceding the reform law, in August 1952, Communist-led riots broke out at textile factories in Kafr el-Dawwar, leading to a confrontation with the army that left nine people dead.

In 1948 the army was 75, 000 strong which grew by 1952 to 150, 000.

Joining the army in 1952, he carried out military operations against the Viet Minh.

He joined the Panamanian army, the National Guard ( Guardia Nacional ), in 1952.

Among the army men trapped were the figures who were going to lead the bloodless revolution of July 23, 1952, prominently Gamal Abdel Nasser, who arguably was a fan of Umm Kulthum and who would later become the president of Egypt.

Finally on 6 January 1952, Naguib won the elections at the army Officers ' Club, almost a revolutionary step in itself, since ordinarily the king's appointees held the executive roles in the Club.

Nasser, by contrast, thought that any talk of democracy, or of a multi-party system, or of the withdrawal of the army from politics, would allow the Wafd, the Muslim Brotherhood and the other political parties to regain the ground they had lost in 1952.

On 22 – 26 July 1952, a group of disaffected army officers ( the " free officers ") led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk, whom the military blamed for Egypt's poor performance in the 1948 war with Israel.

Having served in the army from 1947 to 1952, and been widowed, he applied to Balliol College, Oxford where he took his degree.

He left the Royal College of Music in 1952 and was called up into the army for national service.

In 1952, Chehab refused to allow the army to interfere in the uprising which forced President Bechara El Khoury to resign.

As in 1952, Chehab, still commander of the army, refused to allow the military to interfere.

The army allowed him to turn out for Leeds but also saw to it that he played for them, and in 1952 Charles skippered his side to the Army Cup.

" For the German land forces the memorandum saw prior to 1952 the formation of a 250, 000 strong army.

The Guatemalan coup d ’ état began with Operation PBFORTUNE ( September 1952 ), the partly implemented plan to supply exiled, right-wing, anti – Árbenz rebel groups with operational funds and matériel, to form a counter-revolutionary army of liberation to depose the Árbenz Government.

Between 1952 and 1954, he performed his military service in the Czechoslovak army.

Also, in 1952, McMahon proposed an " army " of young Americans to act as " missionaries of democracy ", which sowed the seeds for what later became the Peace Corps.

In 1952, he became a police officer in London, but in 1957, he chose to move to New Zealand and re-enter the army, serving in the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps until 1970.

* John Tyson Wigan ( 1872 – 1952 ), British politician and army officer

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.

Cable television in Canada began in 1952 with community antenna connections in Vancouver and London, Ontario ; which city is first is not clear.

Campbell began his speed record attempts using his father's old boat Bluebird K4, but after a structural failure at on Coniston Water, Lancashire in 1951, and the death of John Cobb, who was killed in 1952 trying to break the water speed record, he decided that he would develop a new boat.

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

In 1952 Pei and his team began work on a series of projects in Denver, Colorado.

Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit MDA in 1952.

A provincial tour of Pagan in the Parlour began in September 1952 and it appeared that the play would be a hit.

After a period of seclusion and fasting Meher Baba ended the New Life in February 1952 and once again began a round of public appearances throughout India and the West.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

Research into fusion for military purposes began in the early 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, but this was not accomplished until 1951 ( see the Greenhouse Item nuclear test ), and nuclear fusion on a large scale in an explosion was first carried out on November 1, 1952, in the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test.

Another annual tradition that began in West Berlin ( in 1952 ) and was re-routed into the east via Potsdamer Platz following German reunification is the Weihnachtszug ( Christmas train ).

These began in 1952, when the government was still based in Busan due to the ongoing war.

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

Television in Venezuela began in 1952 when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth country in the world to have television.

In 1952 he began to apply quantum mechanics to the analysis of the reaction between Lewis acid and base molecules.

Succeeded in 1952 by his son Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program of planned development.

The first organized international competitions for athletes with a physical disability ( not deaf ) began in 1952, when the first international Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for World War II veterans.

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.