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BLS repts 0.1 drop in consumer price index, Nov 16-Dec 15
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Communists lay claim to 37,000 civilians but would return none of SKs serving voluntarily or otherwise in NK armies
PARIS, Jan. 25 -- A call for a constitutional convention to meet this year to draft a plan for a European federation is being discussed by Western European leaders.
1952Tom Henderson, American basketball player[ā ]
Thomas Edward Henderson is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Newberry, South Carolina.
1952Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.[ā ]
The Cairo fire, also known as Black Saturday, was a series of riots that took place on 26 January 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildingsāretail shops, cafes, cinemas, hotels, restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, and the city's Casino Opera āin downtown Cairo. The direct trigger of the riots was the Battle of Ismailia, an attack on an Egyptian police installation in IsmaĆÆlia by British forces on 25 January, in which roughly 50 auxiliary policemen were killed.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[ā ]