WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1952
Find out what all happened August to October 1952

A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board. (6. September 1952)

Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. (14. October 1952)

Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya. (20. October 1952)

United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. (15. September 1952)

The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published. (1. September 1952)

Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". (23. September 1952)

Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. (11. August 1952)

The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. (19. September 1952)

The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. (12. August 1952)

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang. (6. September 1952)

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. (8. October 1952)

Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. (12. September 1952)

The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. (3. October 1952)

The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. (22. August 1952)

A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people. (15. August 1952)