1952
1952 was the 81st year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
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Sports
- See also: 1952 Birmingham Barons, 1952 Legion Field schedule
Works
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Books
Buildings
- Glenn Middle School
- Hill Elementary School
- Indian Springs School
- P. D. Jackson-Olin High School
- Tuggle Elementary School
People
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Awards
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Births
- March 28: Attorney Mike Graffeo
- April 15: Actor Glenn Shadix in Bessemer
- April 28: Musician Chuck Leavell
- May 12: Cabinetmaker Hilbun Adams in Sacramento, California
- July 15: Basketball player Allen Murphy
- August 16: Musician Topper Price in Mobile County
- August 25: Composer Peter Wolf in Vienna, Austria
- September 27: Judge Alan King in Birmingham
- October 7: Actress Mary Badham in Birmingham
- December 13: Basketball player Larry Kenon
- Teddy Gentry, bassist for Alabama (band)
- Shirley Crumley, casting director
- Daryl Harms, energy entrepreneur
- Ron Ingram, sports reporter
- Ronald Jenkins, biologist
- Robert R. McCammon, author
- Ned Mudd, activist and musician
- Jim Noel, television executive
- Richard Scrushy, entrepreneur
- Wallace Sears, television executive and publisher
- Carole Smitherman, attorney and politician
- Philip C. Williams, university president
Deaths
- Chester Laster, paster of Bethel Baptist Church
- See also: List of Birmingham homicides in 1952
Context
1952, a leap year, saw the premiere of NBC's "The Today Show" and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The winter olympics were held in Oslo, Norway and the summer games in Helsinki, Finland. All U.S. steel mills were nationalized by President Truman in advance of a steelworkers strike. The first B-52 Stratofortress took to the skies. The Mau Mau uprising rocked Kenya. The U.S. detonated its first hydrogen bomb at the Marshall Islands. Eisenhower was elected President of the United States. The Detroit Lions beat the Cleveland Browns for the NFL championship and the WWE was created by Vince McMahon.
Notable births in 1952 included Senator Bill Frist, author Douglas Adams, announcer Bob Costas, coach Bill Belichick, singers David Byrne and George Strait, actors Mr T, Christopher Reeve, John Goodman, Paul Reubens, Isabella Rossellini and Liam Neeson and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. Deaths in 1952 included King George VI of the United Kingdom, Eva Perón, and Franklin Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, Fala.
Top grossing films of 1952 included This is Cinerama, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Singin' in the Rain. Herman Wouk won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for The Caine Mutiny. Other notable book releases included The Diary of Anne Frank and Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire. The top pop songs were "Delicado" by Percy Faith and his Orchestra, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn, and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jimmy Boyd.
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