1952

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January 26 - Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal is named Prime Minister of Mongolia following the death of Khorloogiin Choibalsan.
March 10 - Fulgencio Batista stages a coup d'état and becomes the de facto military dictator of Cuba.
March 21 - Kwame Nkrumah is named the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast.
March 27 - A package addressed to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer explodes in the Munich Police Headquarters, killing one Bavarian police officer, Karl Reichert. Menachem Begin, former leader of the Israeli Irgun, is later revealed to be behind the assassination attempt.
July 26 - King Farouk of Egypt is forced to abdicate by Gamal Abdel Nasser's Free Officers Movement during the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
August 12 - Night of the Murdered Poets: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executes 13 Soviet Jewish poets who were falsely accused of treason and sabotage at Lubyanka Prison in Moscow.
September 23 - Richard Nixon is chosen as the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower during the 1953 Presidential Election.
October 1 - Beginning of the Mau Mau Uprising.
December 2 - Marcos Pérez Jiménez is named provisional president of the Republic of Venezuela by the country's military.
December 25 - Civil rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore are murdered when a bomb that had been planted at their home goes off. Four members of the Ku Klux Klan were revealed to be behind the bombing, but were never charged.