Timeline October 1952

Events in October 1952 4

• 1893 – 1952 Hattie McDaniel (1893-1952) Died 26 October 1952, aged 59 Hattie McDaniel, the actress and singer who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in Gone with the Wind, died of breast cancer on 26 October 1952 in Los Angeles. She had built a career on stage, radio and screen despite the constraints of the era's racial segregation. Her Oscar win in 1940 remained a landmark for Black performers in Hollywood.
• 1952 Operation Hurricane nuclear test United Kingdom becomes the third nuclear power Britain detonated its first atomic bomb aboard the frigate HMS Plym off the Monte Bello Islands, Australia, on 3 October 1952. The test made the UK the third country to possess nuclear weapons, after the United States and Soviet Union. It was conducted in secrecy under the Attlee-era weapons programme.
• 1952 – present Vladimir Putin Russia's dominant leader since 2000 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born October 7, 1952) has been the dominant leader of Russia since 2000. A former KGB officer, he served as President 2000-2008, Prime Minister 2008-2012, and again as President from 2012 onwards. He launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
• 1952 Mau Mau Uprising Britain declares a state of emergency in Kenya Colonial authorities declared a state of emergency in Kenya on 20 October 1952 in response to the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule. The uprising, driven largely by Kikuyu grievances over land, triggered years of guerrilla warfare and mass detention. It became one of the most violent decolonization conflicts in the British Empire.