The last two executions in the Netherlands take place.March 20 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.March 15 – 16 – 73 inches (1,870 mm) of rain falls in Cilaos, Réunion, the most rainfall in one day up to that time.March 10 – General Fulgencio Batista re-takes power in Cuba in a coup.March 7 – NME goes on sale for the first time in the United Kingdom.Vincent Massey is sworn in, as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has an atomic bomb.February 25 – The Parícutin active volcano in Michoacán, west central Mexico, ceases its discontinuous eruption after spewing forth a gigaton of lava, and burying San Juan Parangaricutiro.
The day is later declared " International Mother Language Day" by UNESCO.
February 21 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession of students, killing 4 people and starting a country-wide protest, which leads to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national identity cards, introduced in 1939. Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball, by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League. Bernard Webber and a crew of four volunteer to rescue 32 of the 41 men aboard. The SS Pendleton, a T2 tanker, breaks in half during a nor'easter off the east coast near Massachusetts. February 18 – Greece and Turkey join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. February 15 – The funeral of George VI takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. February 14 – February 25 – The Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway. February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St James's Palace, London, England. In the United States of America, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient. He is succeeded by his daughter Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh as Queen Elizabeth II, who is on a visit to Kenya. George VI (King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon) dies aged 56, after a long illness. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day (the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm). February 2 – Groundhog Day tropical storm forms just north of Cuba, moving northeast. 
January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.January 8 – West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.Millennium:ġ952 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 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.
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