1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.

February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St James's Palace, London, England. Princess Elizabeth acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom upon the death of her father George VI during a visit in 1952. March 29 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

Holiday Inn is a multigalactic hotel chain founded August 1, 1952 OTT by Kemmons Wilson, at Memphis Tennessee USA Earth.

BEMS : In the contactee/abductee mythology which grew up quickly beginning in 1952, the blond, blue-eyed and friendly Space Brothers of the 1950s were quickly replaced by small, unfriendly bug-eyed creatures, closely matching in many respects the pulp cover clichés of the 1930s which have remained the abductor norm since the 1960s. Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies [1] of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force. It started in 1952, and it was the third study of its kind

The term dates from 1947 and was later supplanted by the USAF in 1952 with the even more-generic unidentified flying objects or (UFO's). 1949 — 1952 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by John Giaever