1952 Timeline
September 1952
- September 23: Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers Speech" on TV, where he denied allegations of improper campaign financing.
October 1952
- October 3: Britain becomes the third nuclear power after successfully testing an Atomic Bomb off the coast of Australia.
November 1952
- November 1: The United States tested the first hydrogen bomb, in the Marshall Islands.
- November 4: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson to become the 34th President of the United States
December 1952
- December 5: The Abbott and Costello Show is debuted on CBS, first episode was called The Drugstore
