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Angus MacLean (September 22,1891 –December 15,1972) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1949 to 1952 from the electoral district of Cariboo,a member of the Coalition government. [1] Running as a Liberal Party candidate,he was defeated in his attempt to win a second term in the Legislature in the 1952 provincial election.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist,essayist,poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island,Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director,screenwriter,film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925),Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928),as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its 2012 decennial poll,the magazine Sight &Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th-greatest film of all time.
The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday,November 4,1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II in a landslide victory,becoming the first Republican president in 20 years. This was the first election since 1928 without an incumbent president on the ballot.
The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday,November 6,1956. Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate,incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon,were re-elected,defeating for a second time Democrat Adlai Stevenson II,former Illinois governor. This election was the sixth and most recent rematch in American presidential history. It was the second time in which the winner was the same both times,the first being William McKinley's victories over William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1900. This was the last election before term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution,which first applied to Eisenhower,became effective.
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947,and the first head of the Commonwealth following the London Declaration of 1949.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956,losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower in landslides. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I,the 23rd vice president of the United States. He was raised in Bloomington,Illinois,Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in many positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s,including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration,Federal Alcohol Administration,Department of the Navy,and the State Department. Back in 1945,he served on the committee that created the United Nations,and was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN.
Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such,he was the consort of the British monarch from his wife's accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021,making him the longest-serving royal consort in history.
Raj Kapoor was an Indian actor,film director and producer,who worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema,and has been referred to as The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema and as the Charlie Chaplin of Indian Cinema.
Ramakrishna,also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa,born RamakrishnaChattopadhay,was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali,but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism,Tantric Shaktism,and Advaita Vedanta,as well as Christianity and Islam. He advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal". His parable-based teachings espoused the ultimate unity of diverse religions as being means to enable the realization of the same God. He is regarded by his followers as an avatar.
The 1952 Formula One season was the sixth season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 3rd World Championship of Drivers,which was contested over eight races between 18 May and 7 September 1952. The season also included several non-championship races and a separate East German Championship.
The Helsinki Olympic Stadium,located in the Töölödistrict about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki,is the largest stadium in the country. The stadium is best known for being the centre of activities in the 1952 Summer Olympics. During those games,it hosted athletics,equestrian show jumping,and the football finals.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952,also known as the McCarran–Walter Act,codified under Title 8 of the United States Code,governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States. It came into effect on June 27,1952. The legislation consolidated various immigration laws into a single text. Officially titled the Immigration and Nationality Act,it is often referred to as the 1952 law to distinguish it from the 1965 legislation. This law increased the quota for Europeans outside Northern and Western Europe,gave the Department of State authority to reject entries affecting native wages,eliminated 1880s bans on contract labor,set a minimum quota of one hundred visas per country,and promoted family reunification by exempting citizens' children and spouses from numerical caps.
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner,Frank Sedgman,are generally considered one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time and won the doubles Grand Slam in 1951. McGregor was also a member of three Australian Davis Cup winning teams in 1950–1952. In 1953,Jack Kramer induced both Sedgman and McGregor to turn professional. He was ranked as high as World No. 3 in 1952.
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States,serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly in 1945 as the 34th vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death,Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms,but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated Congress.
John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was an All-American in college football and an outstanding professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) at the running back,quarterback,defensive back,and kicker positions. He is primarily known for his play with the Edmonton Eskimos. Later in his career,he played for the Toronto Argonauts and the BC Lions and coached the Eskimos and Lions after his playing career ended.
The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago,Illinois from July 21 to July 26,1952,which was the same arena the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier for their national convention from July 7 to July 11,1952. Four major candidates sought the presidential nomination:U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois,Senator Richard Russell of Georgia and Averell Harriman of New York.
From July 12 to 29,1952,a series of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported in Washington,D.C.,and later became known as the Washington flap,the Washington National Airport Sightings,or the Invasion of Washington. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends,July 19–20 and July 26–27. UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident "the climax of the 1952 (UFO) flap"—"Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of (UFO) reports."
From March 11 to June 3,1952,voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1952 Democratic National Convention,partly for the purpose of choosing a nominee for president in the 1952 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Harry S. Truman withdrew his candidacy for re-election after losing the New Hampshire primary to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Kefauver proceeded to win a majority of the popular vote,but failed to secure a majority of delegates,most of whom were selected through other means.
The 1952 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 4,1952,in which Incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. lost to Congressman and future President John F. Kennedy,the Democratic Party nominee.
The 1952 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1952. Republican Christian Herter defeated Democratic incumbent Paul A. Dever,Socialist Labor candidate Lawrence Gilfedder,Peace Progressive candidate Florence H. Luscomb,and Prohibition candidate Guy S. Williams.
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