Historical Events In 1952

Mar 28 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

Mar 04 Movie star Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis.

Mar 01 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain

Mar 18 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)

Mar 30 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter and King and I win

Mar 15 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La Réunion, Indian Ocean

Mar 27 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer

Mar 04 Hokkaido, Japan a 8.3 earthquake occurred: 31 killed, 572 injured; 713 houses destroyed, 5,980 damaged. 28 killed and warehouses destroyed at Kushiro. 3 killed and 309 houses destroyed at Kiratapu. 1,000 houses destroyed or damaged at Shiranuka and 400 schools collapsed at Sapporo. 10-foot tsunami.

Mar 01 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns

Mar 20 24th Academy Awards "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart &Vivian Leigh win

Mar 03 Puerto Rico approves their first self written constitution

Mar 22 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44

Mar 30 6th Tony Awards Fourposter and King and I win

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