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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1952 |
Milan-San Remo |
Loretto Petrucci (Ita) |
282 km |
| April 6, 1952 |
Tour of Flanders |
Roger Decock (Bel)
|
258 km |
| April 13, 1952 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Rik van Steenbergen (Bel) |
245 km |
| May 11, 1952 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Ferdi Kubler (Sui)
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229 km |
| May 17-June 8, 1952 |
Giro d'Italia |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
20 Stages
3,964 km |
| June 25-July 19, 1952 |
Tour de France |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
23 Stages,
4,827 km |
| Not Held |
Vuelta a Espana |
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| August 24, 1952 |
World
Championships |
Heinz Muller (Ger) |
Luxembourg, Lux 280 km |
| October 26, 1952 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Giuseppe Minardi (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
226 km |
• Tour de France - Television came to the TdF. Although it was not live, the race action was filmed and shipped by train back to Paris for broadcast the following day.
• Nuclear Test - the first hydrogen is detonated on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• USA - Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in the Presidential election. The UNIVAC computer correctly predicted the election results.
• England - Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of Great Britain.
• NSA - the Defense Department's Armed Forces Security Agency , in place since 1949, was succeeded by the National Security Agency (NSA).
• NYC - traffic lights were installed in New York City.
Notable Deaths - * Tour de France Champion: Maurice De Waele (Bel), 1896-1952, died February 14, 1952. He was the Tour de France champion in 1929.
King George VI, 1895-1952, the second son of the Duke of York, King George V. His daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, succeeded him as the head of state in Great Britain.
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