* 1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

In 1952, he was the lighter of the Olympic Flame at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

In 1952, Nurmi was persuaded by Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland and former chairman of the Finnish Athletics Federation, to carry the Olympic torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Although first demonstrated at the 1952 Olympic Games, synchronized swimming did not become an official Olympic sport until the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.

* 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

) When in 1952 the Soviet Union football team lost to Yugoslavia at the Summer Olympics, Stalin ordered that all footage of the event be destroyed.

First to be built was the student campus of the Helsinki University of Technology, which also served as one of the Olympic Villages in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Magallanes ' chairman, Ernesto Alvear, attended a FIFA Congress held in Helsinki while the Finnish city was hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category: Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Flame of the 1952 Summer Olympics visiting Jyväskylä, Finland

As a precursor to the policies later adopted by Silja Line, each of the three companies ordered a near-identical ship for Helsinki – Stockholm service to coincide with the 1952 Summer Olympics, held in Helsinki.

The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952.

Summer ( 1952 – 1954 )

* Walter Thane Baker, winner of Olympic medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.

* 1952 Winter Olympics held in Oslo, Norway

The anecdote appeared in newspapers as early as 1948, 36 years after his appearance in the Olympics, and in books as early as 1952.

* Emil Zátopek, winner of one silver and four gold medals at the 1948 Olympics and 1952 Olympics and the first to break the 29 minute barrier in the 10, 000 m run, in 1954

In 1952, he was brought before a United States Senate investigative committee.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

One view emphasizes events occurring during and after the U. S. Occupation of Japan ( 1945 – 1952 ), and stresses U. S. cultural influences, including U. S. comics ( brought to Japan by the GIs ) and images and themes from U. S. television, film, and cartoons ( especially Disney ).

In 1952, Gheorghiu-Dej brought him onto the Central Committee months after the party's " Muscovite faction " led by Ana Pauker had been purged.

Ernie brought the EEFMS to New York in 1952 when he moved to WCBS.

In 1952, with the help of Ralph and his daughter Trudy, five were captured and flown to England, the first time Trumpeter swans had ever flown across the Atlantic ( although in the 19th century swans had been brought by ship to European zoos ).

In 1952 Koch formed Matador Cattle Company, and later one of his companies purchased part of Matador Ranch, which was brought together with other Koch ranches in Montana and Kansas.

In 1952, original Runways 1 / 19 and 6 / 24 were closed in response to concerns about obstructions and noise, and a modern Runway 4 / 22 ( now 4R / 22L ) was commissioned at a length of This runway was later extended to, shortened for a while to and finally brought to its present length by 2000.

The executive committee of the Officers ' Club was dissolved and the Free Officers brought their plans for a revolution three years forward, taking power in July 1952.

The cats arrived on the island before 1952, probably brought by navy officers that worked there.

In a 1952 review, General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported to President Harry Truman that " Ridgway had brought NATO to ' its realistic phase ' and a ' generally encouraging picture of how the heterogeneous defense force is being gradually shaped.

The 1950s brought in the first orders from countries other than Italy, in particular from MG and Bristol Cars Limited in 1952.

After the war the statues were brought back to Hong Kong, and in 1952 Queen Victoria's statue was restored and placed in Victoria Park.

Dwight Ware Watson ( born September 28, 1952 ), dubbed the " Tractor Man " in the media, is a tobacco farmer from Whitakers, North Carolina, who brought much of Washington, D. C. to a standstill for two days when he drove a tractor into the pond in the Constitution Gardens area of the National Mall and claimed to have explosives.

The 1952 election produced an almost evenly-divided Senate ; Morse brought a folding chair when the session convened, intending to position himself in the aisle between the Democrats and Republicans to underscore his lack of party affiliation.

Mathews was brought up to the major leagues in 1952, Mathews hit 25 home runs, including three in one game.

Nurmi finally got his sweet revenge during 1952 Olympic games in Helsinki when he brought the olympic torch to the opening ceremony in the stadium and received a standing ovation in front of Edström.

The parliamentary enclosure of 1780 brought agrarian progress to the village, but it was not until the opening of a colliery by the National Coal Board in 1952, that the village began to assume its present identity, with new housing estates and population growth.

1952 brought eight wins and four poles.

Starting on September 6, 1952, Girls brought on the show were given a Roxanne doll that was produced at the time.

1952 brought his first No. 1 disc, " The Wild Side of Life ," which contained the memorable line " I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels " ( which inspired songwriter J. D.

His reputation for strong party loyalty brought Bender the job of organizer for Ohio Senator Robert Taft's candidancy for the presidential nomination at the 1948 and 1952 Republican National Conventions.

An exhibition which brought together the work of 84 leading artists and musicians, who were invited to make a visual artwork in response to a chosen track from the album release the Anthology of American Folk Music, an anthology edited by New York artist, musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith, first published by Folkways in 1952.

Mack brought the show back in 1948 on ABC Radio, where it ran until 1952.