Editing 1952

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== Events ==
* 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 [[murder]]ed 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.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 8 - [[Mel Reynolds]]
* January 22 - [[Robledo Puch]]
* February 2 - [[Park Geun-hye]]
* March 19 – [[Harvey Weinstein]]
* March 25 - [[Dursun Karataş]]
* April 15 - [[Donald Harvey]]
* May 10 - [[Thomas Watt Hamilton]]
* May 18 - [[David Burke]]
* June 18 - [[Idriss Déby]]
* July 6 - [[Prince Johnson]]
* July 10 - [[Larry Gene Ashbrook]]
* July 25 - [[James Mason]]
* July 31 - [[Hadden Clark]]
* August 5 - [[Hun Sen]]
* August 27 - [[Roger Stone]]
* August 28 - [[Augustin Bizimungu]]
* August 30 - [[Lonnie David Franklin]]
* September 8 - [[Joachim Knychała]]
* September 29 - [[Arthur Gary Bishop]]
* October 3 - [[Rafael Caro Quintero]]
* October 5 - [[Emomali Rahmon]]
* October 7 - [[Vladimir Putin]]
* December 6 - [[Charles Bronson]]
* December 21 - [[Larry Eyler]]
* Unknown - [[Léon Mugesera]]
* Unknown - [[Credonia Mwerinde]]

=== Victim births ===
* July 22 - Betty Jensen
* April 25 - Brenda Sue Schaefer
* December 11 - Carolyn Anne Beug (9/11 Victim)
* Unknown - Lynda Ann Healy

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 26 - [[Khorloogiin Choibalsan]]
* February 28 - [[Albert Forster]]
* March 6 - [[Jurgen Stroop]]
* November 22 - [[Otto Dietrich]]
* December 8 - [[Charles Lightoller]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* December 25 - Harry and Harriette Moore