Talk:1952

Woodstock

I've changed the link on the John Cage 4' 33" premiere back to Woodstock, New York as it was before, rather than Woodstock, New York - the article at Woodstock is about the festival, but this premiere wasn't at the festival but the place (and was 17 years before the festival anyway), so I think it's rather midleading to have this entry point there. There is at Woodstock a pointer to Woodstock, New York which hopefully will be written one day. --Camembert 11:17 Sep 7, 2002 (UTC)

Juice Newton

Anyone know why Juice Newton is listed here for February 18?? I would think he was born or died then (yes, I know that little about him... at least, I think it's a him), but he's in the Events section right now, where that almost certainly doesn't belong, or it needs to say what he did that day, that year. -- John Owens 16:10 Apr 13, 2003 (UTC)

Fixed. She's a woman, by the way. --Camembert

I was probably conflating with Wayne Newton. Thanks anyway. -- John Owens

Blast

At 22:29 on Jan 5, 2003, 195.197.166.178 added January 11 - Unexplained blast shakes part of Southern California coastline from Venice to San Diego for 8 hours because I have not been able to find any such news story. Can anyone verify that it happened? Kingturtle 22:11 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)

As of maintenance

The entry

• November 25 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London; as of 2004, it continues, next door at the St. Martin's Theatre, and remains the longest continuously running production of a play in history.

at 1952#Events needs checking once a year; as of 2004, St Martin's Theatre information on the London theatre including how to buy tickets and what's playing suits the task well.

Page layout years

There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.

For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). (talk)--BozMo 14:27, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Flood

I cannot believe that all three of "May 15 - Flash flood in Lymouth, England - 35 dead", "August 6 - Lynmouth in North Devon is devastated by floods - 31 dead", and "August 16 - Lynmouth in North Devon is devastated by floods, death toll of 31" are correct. Anyone know what really happened? -- SGBailey 10:34, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC) The Rain May Have Been Caused by Project Cumemulus? (Cloud Seeding)

According to the [BBC], it was 34 dead on August 16. Filiocht 10:47, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

Night of the 15th, morning of the 16th. That is what Lynmouth says too. And other sources ([1], [2], [3]).-- ALoan (Talk) 11:23, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Rick James

Someone has Rick James listed as being born in 1952 and his article says 1948... which is it? JoeHenzi 00:34, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Expansion

I've added Douglas Unger, American novelist, to the list of 1952 births. Hope you appreciate it, cheers! Randalph P. Williams 11:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Viking ship & possibly many other unreliable claims

I have deleted the claim:

June 5 – Remains of a Viking ship are found near Boston, Massachusetts.

It immediately struck me as highly improbable, as I have a modest interest in the history of Norse colonization of the Americas, and had never heard of any Norse artefact being found in the Americas that was half that dramatic or so much as 1/10th the size, and it's the sort of thing that would really stick in your mind. Apart from sites that have unfortunately started to copy this page I could find no other reference to this ship -- not even in some of the very non-mainstream websites which list every scratched pebble as evidence of a thriving Norse kingdom in pre-Colombian Minnesota. It is also not included on comprehensive lists of unearthed Viking ships (of which all known examples come from Scandinavia or Great Britain.)

The claim was added in the revision of 22:29, on 5 January 2003, by anonymous editor 195.197.166.178. This IP only ever made 8 edits, all of them on the same day 7 years ago, and all of them consisting of adding massive (and poorly formatted) lists of unsourced facts to just four articles (1945, 1972 and 1952) and smaller changes to List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people. The edits to the list of GLB people seem constructive but many of the claims made in the other edits are dubious, subtly wrong, or outright false. For example, it lists the date of the arrest of Raoul Wallenberg as 13 January 1945 whereas it was actually 17 January, according to most sources. It claims that on October 27 – Indonesian separatists riot and fight Dutch and British security forces, whereas, according to the heavily referenced Indonesian National Revolution article, there were few Dutch troops in Indonesia in 1945, the rioting had started in late August, and by October there was open warfare with thousands dead and much of the country already under the control of Republican revolutionaries.

Another one, from 1972: on January 26 – Yugoslavian air stewardress Vesca Vulovic is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Chechoslovakia. More or less true, except that her name is Vesna Vulović, not Vesca, the plane did not crash (it exploded in mid-air due to a bomb), and it uses a rather unusual spelling for Czechoslovakia. (The only languages I could find which use the same consonant for the first two in this name, are Italian and Sicilian, which both use just "c". I had hoped that these two spelling errors might help track down the source of the claim, but the only duplicates I could find on the web are clearly sourced from this article, not vice versa.) Also in 1972, we have *First Grey super computers. What the heck is a "Grey super computer"? Possibly the editor meant a Cray supercomputer, but if so, the date is wrong: Seymour Cray did found his company in 1972, but his first working machine was not delivered until 1976.

I could go on and on -- there are literally dozens of dot points in these edits. I have found no convincing reason to believe that any of these errors are malicious, but I do think this editor was rather careless, interested mainly in adding a lot of stuff quickly rather than careful fact checking. Unfortunately, "year" articles are probably much less heavily monitored than many others, and some of these errors have survived unchecked for the better part of a decade. I don't have time to exhaustively check exactly how many have survived all the way through to today, and cannot be verified, so after acting boldly to remove the Viking ship claim (unless and until someone provides a reliable source), I ask other editors to continue to check some of the other claims. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 08:01, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/CONSUMER/CON00006.html
  • In 1952 on 2011-05-25 03:28:35, 404 Not Found
  • In 1952 on 2011-06-04 17:41:54, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 17:42, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Jimmy Boyd

Jimmy Boyd recorded the song, "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," on July 15, 1952, at age 13, according to the separate article. This page states that he was 12 years old, and the date is unknown. Can anyone verify either one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by L. Thomas W. (talk • contribs) 14:55, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

OXO

On which day of the year was OXO (the very first video game) crated? Certainly it was 1952, but what day of the year? I'm having trouble finding that. Could someone please help me find sources? Once I know, I'll edit it in later. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 06:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Sybil Danning

Says born 1952 here, but her article says 1947. AMCKen (talk) 23:09, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

collage

I don't think the 1952 Kern County earthquake is significant enough as it only caused 14 deaths. I propose to replace it with the 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake. Additionally, I believe that the first hydrogen bomb in history, Ivy Mike, is important and deserves a place in the collage, but I am not sure which event to replace. Do you guys have any suggestions? Nagae Iku (talk) 15:02, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Collage depreciation

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Years#Lead_image, a discussion on whether to depreciate collages in general in going on. Please share your thoughts.--Marginataen (talk) 21:40, 22 October 2023 (UTC)