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| 1952 |
| | | The UK car manufacturers Morris and Austin merge to become the British Motor Corporation | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Gene Kelly dances a famous routine with an umbrella in the film Singin' in the Rain | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his first book of Structures, for two pianos, Pierre Boulez provides a classic of serial music | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea, about an epic struggle between an aged Cuban fisherman and a gigantic marlin | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Grace Kelly has her first starring role in High Noon, with Gary Cooper | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from gaol, becomes prime minister of the British colony of the Gold Coast | |
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| 1952 |
| | | A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Eva Perón dies of cancer and achieves the status of a popular saint in Argentina | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Ahmed Ben Bella forms the Front de Libération National (FLN) to fight for Algerian independence | |
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| 1952 |
| | | King Adbullah's grandson Hussein (who was with him when he was assassinated in 1951) becomes king of Jordan | |
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| 1952 |
| | | British scholar Michael Ventris deciphers Linear B, the script of Mycenae, proving it to be an early form of Greek | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his novel East of Eden John Steinbeck develops the biblical theme of Cain and Abel in a family saga set in California | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US clergyman Norman Vincent Peale has a best-seller in The Power of Positive Thinking | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic | |
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| 1952 |
| | | An outbreak of terrorism in Kenya is orchestrated by a secret Kikuyu organization, the Mau Mau | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US composer John Cage's 4'33" consists of precisely that number of minutes and seconds of silence | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the US presidential election with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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| 1952 |
| | | The Modern Jazz Quartet, led by pianist John Lewis, plays in the sophisticated style that becomes known as 'cool jazz' | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan creates his first ballet, Somnambulism, to music by Stan Kenton | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March, a novel about the experiences of a young Chicago Jew | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Joseph Stalin dies, four days after suffering a stroke | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US architect Louis Kahn makes his reputation with the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven | |
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| 1953 |
| | | English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900 | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Black American Malcolm Little, who has joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, adopts the surname X to symbolize his rejection of his slave name | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta, charged with having organized the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, is sentenced to seven years in prison | |
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| 1953 |
| | | James Bond, agent 007, has a licence to kill in Ian Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale | |
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| 1953 |
| | | US microbiologist Jonas Salk announces the discovery of an effective vaccine against polio | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Alfred Charles Kinsey completes his study of human sexuality with the publication of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female | |
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