ABSTRACT
In 1952, Elizabeth II acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom. The world learned from Prime Minister Winston Churchill that Great Britain had developed the atomic bomb (it was tested in October of the same year). Fulgencio Batista returned to power in Cuba. A peace treaty between Japan and the United States was ratified. Anne Frank’s diary was first published in English. Puerto Rico wrote and approved a Constitution, becoming a commonwealth of the United States with some autonomy. John Cage’s experimental piece 4′33″ saw its premiere in Woodstock, New York. The first hydrogen bomb was detonated by the US at an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Eisenhower traveled to Korea to try to bring the conflict to a conclusion. A front-page report in The New York Daily News detailed the successful sexual reassignment surgery of Christine Jorgensen.
