On this day

January 1, 1952

Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device

Filter by:

Headlines from January 1, 1952

Business Review and Forecast

By Unknown Author

None0 words

KOREA FOE PLEDGES MORE INFORMATION ON ALLIED CAPTIVES; Data Will Be Given on 50,000 Not Listed on Enemy's First Roster of Prisoners

By Lindesay Parrott

Subcom on agenda item 3 (truce guarantees) meets, Panmunjom; discusses UN plan waiving aerial inspection and other safeguards in exch for ban on bldg mil airfields; Communists adamant on right to build airfields; hold curbs interference in NK internal affairs; see ban on bringing mil planes into Korea making ban on fields unnecessary; UN aware that fields, once built, could be occupied within mins by planes flown from Manchuria; Gen Hsieh Fang reptdly scores UN failure to adopt Communist phraseology on high-level pol conf immediately following truce accord

None0 words

Times Sq. Hits Pre-War Note As Noisy Throng Greets '52; NOISY CROWDS HAIL THE ADVENT OF 1952

By Meyer Berger

celebration, Times Sq; illus

None0 words

BALANCED BUDGET, NO MORE TAXES SET AS AIM IN CONGRESS; Cannon Pledges House Fund Group to Stiff Scrutiny of All Spending to Bar Debt Rise

By C. P. Trussell

Repr Cannon sets goal to hold appropriations within estimated receipts, fiscal '53; would start closed subcom hearings early; White House sees wk delay on budget message

None0 words

Bargain-Hunters, Revelers on Loose As London Rings in '52 With Riots; BARGAIN RIOTS HIT STORES IN LONDON

By Clifton Daniel

LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 1 -New York's bargain basements had better look to their laurels. Yesterday the ladies of London put on a New Year's Eve demonstration of department store battle tactics as savage as anything ever seen on Fourteenth Street.

None0 words

1952Shaji N. Karun, Indian director and cinematographer^[†]

Shaji Neelakantan Karunakaran, better known as Shaji N. Karun, was an Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi (1988) won the Caméra d'Or – Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He was the inaugural chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the first academy for film and TV in India and was also the executive chairman of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) from 1998 to 2001. He is best known for his award-winning films Piravi (1988), Swaham (1994), Vanaprastham (1999) and Kutty Srank (2009). He won the National Award for Best Director for his debut film Piravi. He also won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Director for his films Swaham and Vanaprastham. He was the Chairman of Kerala State Film Development Corporation from 2019 to 2025 until his death.

Historical Context for January 1, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people^[†]

Headlines from January 1, 1952

Business Review and Forecast

KOREA FOE PLEDGES MORE INFORMATION ON ALLIED CAPTIVES; Data Will Be Given on 50,000 Not Listed on Enemy's First Roster of Prisoners

Times Sq. Hits Pre-War Note As Noisy Throng Greets '52; NOISY CROWDS HAIL THE ADVENT OF 1952

BALANCED BUDGET, NO MORE TAXES SET AS AIM IN CONGRESS; Cannon Pledges House Fund Group to Stiff Scrutiny of All Spending to Bar Debt Rise

Bargain-Hunters, Revelers on Loose As London Rings in '52 With Riots; BARGAIN RIOTS HIT STORES IN LONDON

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 1, 1952