Editing 1952 (section)

===November–December===
* [[November 1]] – [[Nuclear weapons testing|Nuclear testing]] and [[Operation Ivy]]: The United States successfully [[Detonation|detonates]] the first [[hydrogen bomb]], codenamed "Mike", at [[Enewetak Atoll|Eniwetok]] Atoll in the [[Marshall Islands]] in the central Pacific Ocean, with a [[nuclear weapon yield|yield]] of 10.4 [[TNT equivalent|megatons]].
[[Image:IvyMike2.jpg|thumb|220px|The explosion of the first hydrogen bomb.]]
* [[November 4]]
** [[1952 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] defeats [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[Governor of Illinois]] [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] (correctly predicted by the [[UNIVAC I|UNIVAC]] computer).
** [[Pace-Finletter MOU 1952]]: A [[Memorandum of understanding]] is signed between "...Air Force Secretary Finletter and Army Secretary Pace that established a fixed wing weight limit [for the Army] of five thousand pounds empty, but weight restrictions on helicopters were eliminated..."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shwtKbTbEuEC&pg=PA196|title=Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry|first=Donald M.|last=Pattillo|date=February 1, 2001|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0472086715}}</ref>
* [[November 5]] – The 9.0 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake|Severo-Kurilsk earthquake]] hits the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] of the [[Soviet Union]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''). A tsunami took the lives of more than 2,300 people.
* [[November 18]] – [[Jomo Kenyatta]] is arrested in [[Kenya]], for an alleged connection to the [[Mau Mau Uprising]].
* [[November 20]]
** The first official passenger flight [[Polar route|over the North Pole]] is made, from Los Angeles to [[Copenhagen]].
**One of the first successful gender-affirming surgeries is performed in [[Copenhagen]] on [[Christine Jorgensen]]. 
* [[November 29]] – [[Korean War]]: U.S. President-elect [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] fulfills a [[political campaign]] promise, by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
* [[December 1]] – [[Adolfo Ruiz Cortines]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Albert Schweitzer]] is given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
* [[December 14]] – The first successful surgical separation of [[Conjoined twins|Siamese twins]] is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital, [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]].
* [[December 20]] – The [[1952 Moses Lake C-124 crash|crash]] of a [[United States Air Force]] C-124 Globemaster at Moses Lake, WA kills 86 servicemen.
* [[December 25]] – One West German soldier is killed in a shooting incident in [[West Berlin]].
* [[December 26]] – [[Joseph Ivor Linton]], the first Israeli [[Envoy (title)|Minister Plenipotentiary]] in Japan, presents his credentials to the [[Emperor of Japan]].