1952
ID: 1661
Korean War military testing: 81% literacy rate (down from 96% in WWII)
ID: 1661
1952
ID: 1662
Walter Schreiber (Paperclip scientist) flees to Argentina with U.S. military assistance
ID: 1662
1952
ID: 1663
Roy Cohn arrives in Washington, meets Hoover; Reagan grants MCA special waiver
ID: 1663
1952
ID: 1664
George H.W. Bush stationed at CIA Berlin Base - exposed to Gehlen Organization operations
ID: 1664
1952
ID: 1665
'Transition Treaty' ends Allied authority over war crimes, transfers all cases to German courts
ID: 1665
1952
ID: 1666
By 1952: 60% of West German Foreign Ministry employees are former Nazi party members
ID: 1666
1952
ID: 1667
National Security Agency (NSA) officially established by President Truman
ID: 1667
1952
ID: 1668
Television broadcasting spreads globally
ID: 1668
1952
ID: 1670
Washington National Airport UFO Incidents - Objects tracked on radar at 7,000+ mph, largest Air Force press conference
ID: 1670
1952
ID: 1671
Dr. McCormick reports 'spectacular results' with vitamin C
ID: 1671
1952
ID: 4301
Grace Hopper develops A-0 compiler at Remington Rand - first compiler automatically translates code
ID: 4301
1952
ID: 4410
Alick Glennie develops Autocode at Manchester University - first compiled high-level language
ID: 4410
1952
ID: 4302
April 1952
IBM announces 701 Defense Calculator - IBM's first commercial scientific computer, 19 installations
ID: 4302
1952
ID: 1669
April 7, 1952
April 7, 1952: Bella Dodd baptized by Sheen in St. Patrick's Cathedral
ID: 1669
1952
ID: 4257
May 1952
Remington Rand acquires Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - gains cryptography and military computing expertise
ID: 4257
1952
ID: 4259
November 1952
UNIVAC I correctly predicts Eisenhower landslide on CBS television with only 7% of vote counted - public introduction to computers
ID: 4259