| January 1 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet |
| January 2 | "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 542 performances |
| January 3 | Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38 |
| January 3 | "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV |
| January 5 | Flying Enterprise sinks |
| January 7 | French Plevin government falls |
| January 8 | Jordan adopts constitution |
| January 9 | Belgian Pholien government resigns |
| January 9 | Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title |
| January 9 | Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty |
| January 10 | Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toreadors," premieres in Paris |
| January 11 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore |
| January 12 | NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13 |
| January 12 | University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student |
| January 14 | Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends |
| January 14 | Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26 |
| January 14 | "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV |
| January 16 | New Dutch bible translation finished |
| January 16 | U.S. Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary |
| January 19 | NFL takes control of New York Yankees |
| January 19 | PGA approves allowing black participants |
| January 20 | British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone |
| January 20 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 21 | Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
| January 24 | 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly New York Yankees |
| January 24 | Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base |
| January 25 | Test debut of Richie Benaud, vs. West Indies at the SCG |
| January 30 | Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres |
| January 31 | Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1 centuries |
| January 31 | Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 1 | General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
| February 1 | SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in New York City |
| February 4 | 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York) |
| February 6 | England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II |
| February 8 | "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV |
| February 13 | Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win |
| February 14 | 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway |
| February 14 | Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller |
| February 16 | Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33 |
| February 16 | Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record) |
| February 18 | 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca wins |
| February 19 | French offensive at Hanoi |
| February 20 | 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) |
| February 20 | "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York City |
| February 21 | Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) |
| February 21 | Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition |
| February 21 | Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage to Michael Wilding |
| February 24 | Betty MacKinnon and Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament |
| February 25 | 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway |
| February 26 | Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference |
| February 26 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
| February 29 | Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy GRB |
| February 29 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of GER |
| February 29 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of FRA |
| February 29 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA |
| March 1 | Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns |
| March 1 | Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
| March 2 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| March 3 | Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution |
| March 5 | Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London |
| March 8 | Antoine Pinay forms French government |
| March 8 | Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis |
| March 9 | Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title |
| March 10 | Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
| March 15 | "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 276 performances |
| March 15 | Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean |
| March 16 | 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record) |
| March 16 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 18 | 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia) |
| March 18 | Communist offensive in Korea |
| March 20 | 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win |
| March 20 | Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan |
| March 20 | U.S. senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan |
| March 21 | "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 94 performances |
| March 21 | 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S. |
| March 21 | Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever |
| March 21 | Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths |
| March 22 | Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 |
| March 23 | Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds |
| March 24 | Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
| March 26 | 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns 80-63 |
| March 26 | F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich |
| March 27 | Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer |
| March 27 | Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records |
| March 28 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| March 28 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| March 30 | 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter and King and I win |
| March 30 | Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open |
| April 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 3 | Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress |
| April 5 | Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title |
| April 6 | 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286 |
| April 8 | President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike |
| April 9 | Popular uprising in Bolivia |
| April 12 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament |
| April 12 | Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government |
| April 15 | 1st B-52 prototype test flight |
| April 15 | Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card |
| April 15 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games |
| April 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 16 | "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| April 19 | 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53 |
| April 21 | BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) |
| April 22 | 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada |
| April 22 | Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises," premieres in New York City |
| April 23 | Bob Cain of Browns and Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter |
| April 23 | New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only home run |
| April 23 | Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed |
| April 25 | 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
| April 25 | American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter |
| April 25 | German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms |
| April 26 | Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman |
| April 26 | U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176 |
| April 27 | "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 15 performances |
| April 28 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
| April 28 | St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan |
| April 28 | WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect |
| April 30 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open |
| April 30 | Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television |
| May 1 | Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada |
| May 1 | Mr. Potato Head, introduced |
| May 1 | TWA introduces tourist class |
| May 2 | 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music" |
| May 2 | 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet |
| May 2 | Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers |
| May 3 | 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
| May 3 | 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 |
| May 3 | "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 644 performances |
| May 4 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open |
| May 5 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) |
| May 5 | Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base |
| May 8 | Mad Magazine debuts |
| May 8 | "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| May 8 | "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| May 10 | "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| May 12 | Charlton Playground named in Bronx |
| May 13 | Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings |
| May 13 | Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India |
| May 15 | Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0 |
| May 15 | Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
| May 16 | "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 365 performances |
| May 17 | 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 |
| May 18 | Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC |
| May 21 | Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1 |
| May 21 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal |
| May 27 | European Defense Community forms |
| May 29 | 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends |
| May 30 | Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves |
| May 30 | Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres |
| June 1 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament |
| June 1 | Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index |
| June 2 | 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S. |
| June 2 | Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette |
| June 3 | Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
| June 5 | 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing |
| June 5 | Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for hw boxing title |
| June 5 | Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman vs. India at Headingley |
| June 7 | "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 94 performances |
| June 7 | 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4 |
| June 7 | 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2 |
| June 8 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open |
| June 10 | Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| June 10 | St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby |
| June 12 | U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid |
| June 13 | Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 |
| June 14 | 52nd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas |
| June 14 | Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings |
| June 14 | Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss |
| June 14 | Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) |
| June 14 | Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus |
| June 16 | Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down |
| June 17 | 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium |
| June 19 | "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host |
| June 21 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| June 23 | U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea |
| June 25 | 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville |
| June 25 | Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election |
| June 25 | "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 597 performances |
| June 26 | Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%) |
| June 26 | Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
| June 29 | 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany |
| June 29 | 7th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| June 30 | "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV |
| June 30 | Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government |
| July 2 | Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam |
| July 2 | Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila |
| July 3 | Puerto Rico's constitution approved by U.S. Congress |
| July 4 | 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62) |
| July 4 | Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted |
| July 5 | 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63) |
| July 5 | "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| July 6 | Last tram ride in London |
| July 7 | SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 |
| July 8 | 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
| July 11 | General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate |
| July 12 | East German SED decides to form East Germany army |
| July 14 | SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward) |
| July 15 | 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins |
| July 15 | Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding |
| July 17 | Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier |
| July 18 | KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 19 | 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland |
| July 19 | Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford |
| July 19 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day |
| July 19 | "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 289 performances |
| July 20 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0) |
| July 20 | Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France |
| July 21 | 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed |
| July 21 | Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns |
| July 22 | Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution |
| July 23 | General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) |
| July 24 | 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) |
| July 24 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) |
| July 24 | President Truman settles 53-day steel strike |
| July 25 | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day) |
| July 25 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth |
| July 26 | King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] |
| July 26 | Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer |
| July 27 | Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2) |
| July 28 | Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager |
| July 29 | 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet |
| July 30 | Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid |
| August 3 | 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland |
| August 6 | Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout |
| August 8 | Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
| August 9 | General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium |
| August 10 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament |
| August 11 | Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan |
| August 12 | Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan |
| August 14 | Matyas Rakosi appointed premier of Hungary |
| August 15 | 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316) |
| August 15 | 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34 |
| August 17 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| August 20 | Stalin meets Chou Enlai |
| August 23 | Arab League security pact goes into effect |
| August 23 | Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing |
| August 25 | Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0 |
| August 25 | Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth |
| August 26 | Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins |
| August 27 | Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2) |
| August 28 | German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments |
| August 28 | Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister |
| September 1 | Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney |
| September 1 | Willem Drees forms new Dutch government |
| September 2 | Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery |
| September 5 | General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile |
| September 6 | Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
| September 7 | 66th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75) |
| September 7 | 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| September 7 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament |
| September 7 | General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier |
| September 7 | New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yankees a 5-1 win at Washington He has now home runs in all 15 major league parks |
| September 7 | Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tennessee) |
| September 7 | Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters |
| September 8 | 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| September 8 | Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published |
| September 10 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open |
| September 11 | West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
| September 12 | Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London |
| September 13 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
| September 15 | Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee |
| September 15 | European Parliament forms in Strasbourg |
| September 15 | U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia |
| September 17 | "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" |
| September 20 | KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event |
| September 23 | Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
| September 23 | Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech |
| September 23 | Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title |
| September 24 | Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death |
| September 24 | Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 |
| September 25 | Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game |
| September 26 | Yankees clinch 4th straight and 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2 |
| September 29 | "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance |
| October 1 | 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or |
| October 1 | Liberal Party wins Japanese elections |
| October 1 | Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) |
| October 3 | 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| October 3 | 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca |
| October 3 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| October 4 | "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 356 performances |
| October 5 | 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow |
| October 5 | 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit |
| October 7 | 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) |
| October 7 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series |
| October 7 | Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins |
| October 8 | 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England) |
| October 8 | Chinese offensive in Korea |
| October 12 | Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons |
| October 12 | KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 14 | "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| October 15 | Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in New York City |
| October 16 | Pakistan's 1st Test starts, vs. India at Delhi |
| October 16 | Woolworth's at Powell and Market (SF) opens |
| October 18 | "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| October 18 | Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash |
| October 19 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament |
| October 20 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya |
| October 21 | Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian) |
| October 24 | Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria |
| October 25 | 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck" |
| October 25 | French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam |
| October 25 | Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* vs. India |
| October 26 | Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India |
| October 27 | "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 89 performances |
| October 28 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open |
| October 30 | Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas |
| October 31 | 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands |
| November 1 | 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific |
| November 3 | Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas |
| November 3 | Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel |
| November 4 | Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America |
| November 4 | Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
| November 6 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres |
| November 10 | Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN |
| November 12 | Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP |
| November 13 | False fingernails 1st sold |
| November 13 | KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 14 | Greek general Papagos wins elections |
| November 16 | Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election |
| November 19 | North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH |
| November 19 | Spain joins UNESCO |
| November 20 | Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP |
| November 20 | George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in New York City |
| November 20 | Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin |
| November 21 | 1st U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced |
| November 21 | Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 22 | A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year |
| November 24 | Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running) |
| November 25 | Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap," premieres in London |
| November 25 | George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL |
| November 25 | Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23 |
| November 26 | 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood |
| November 27 | KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 29 | 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11 |
| November 29 | President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war |
| November 30 | Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism |
| December 2 | 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB) |
| December 2 | 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colorado) |
| December 3 | 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
| December 3 | Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela |
| December 4 | Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word |
| December 4 | Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO |
| December 5 | Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die |
| December 6 | Czechoslovakian government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata |
| December 7 | KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| December 8 | 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) |
| December 8 | French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
| December 8 | Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel |
| December 10 | Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| December 10 | WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 10 | Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| December 14 | KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 14 | R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs. Pakistan, Calcutta |
| December 14 | Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die |
| December 15 | Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
| December 15 | KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 15 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
| December 15 | "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances |
| December 18 | Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president |
| December 19 | Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker" |
| December 20 | KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 21 | Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
| December 21 | WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 22 | French government of Pinay, resigns |
| December 22 | WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| December 28 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game |
| December 29 | 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale in Elmsford, New York |
| December 30 | Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US |
