* In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.

Note: This list is limited to linguists who have worked specifically on the Altaic problem since the publication of the first volume of Ramstedt's Einführung in 1952.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

This was a crippling blow to Berg's self-confidence: he effectively withdrew the work, which is surely one of the most extraordinarily innovative and assured first orchestral compositions in the literature, and it was not performed in full until 1952.

* 1952 – Secretary's Day ( now Administrative Professionals ' Day ) is first celebrated.

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

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

A hydrogen bomb — which produced nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission — was first tested by the United States in November 1952 and the Soviet Union in August 1953.

The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper, in 1952, for the A-0 programming language.

( The first successful test did not occur until 1952, after Attlee had left office.

" However, the first operational British A Bomb was not detonated until October 1952, about one year after Attlee had left office.

In 1952 Marker made his first film, Olympia 52, a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

Under Mao Zedong, the People's Republic of China held its first in 1952, but the second in 1963 was secret and unacknowledged until the early 1980s.

The first population census after the independence in 1946 was taken 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.

Several stories written for that magazine were later collected in her first published book, Judgment Night, published by Gnome Press in 1952.

Eisenhower also conducted the first pre-inaugural cabinet meeting in history in late 1952 ; he used this meeting to articulate his anti-communist Russia policy.

* 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.

There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more mental disorders, although some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders.

He was the first to draw Tony the Tiger for the Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes advertising campaign in 1952.

A right to education has been created and recognized by some jurisdictions: Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education.

Unable to succeed himself, he left his office in 1952 as the first president in 28 years to complete his term in office.

** Import substitution and nationalization, 1952 – 1966, during which the first program of industrialization in 1957 was established and led by the public sector in heavy industries such as iron and steel and chemical industries.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

* 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Reuben Gant, American football player

* 1952 – Paul Reubens, American actor

* 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician ( d. 1952 )

* 1952 – Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Timbuk3 )

* 1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Kiss and Vinnie Vincent Invasion )

* 1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd ) ( d. 2007 )

* 1952 – Robin Quivers, American radio host, actress, and author

* 1952 – Bill Belichick, American football coach

* 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor

* 1952 – Debbie Meyer, American swimmer

* 1952 – Gianna Rolandi, American soprano

* 1952 – Reginald VelJohnson, American actor

* 1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director

* 1952 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1952 – Rita Dove, American poet

* 1952 – Karen Hesse, American author

* 1952 – Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Radiators )

* 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress

* 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer ( d. 1980 )

* 1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer ( Devo )