February 2 –Groundhog Day tropical storm forms just north ofCuba, moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southernFlorida the next day as a gale-force storm and transitions to a tropical storm over the Atlantic (only Atlantic tropical storm on record in February).
February 6 – Amechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.
February 20 –Emmett Ashford becomes the firstAfrican-Americanumpire in organizedbaseball, by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
July 19–26 –Washington D.C. UFO incident. Several allegedUFOs tracked on multiple radars. Jets scramble on several occasions and the objects take evasive action, only to return after the jets leave the area.
August 22 – A 5.8 Mw aftershock affectsBakersfield with a maximumMercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing two and causing an additional $10 million in damage.
October 1 to 31 – With an average coast-to-coast precipitation of 0.54 inches or 13.7 millimetres,[1] this is easily the driest month over the contiguous United States since reliable records began in 1895[2] (The second-driest, November 1917, averaged as much as 0.95 inches or 24.1 millimetres.)
^Winston, Jay S.; 'The Weather and Circulation of October 1952: The Driest Month on Record in the United States';Monthly Weather Review; 80(10); pp. 190–194
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