Timeline July 1952

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• 1896 – 1952 Hugh Cairns Port Pirie, Australia The Australian neurosurgeon who attended Lawrence after the crash. He went on to organise mobile neurosurgical units in the Second World War and to run the trial that proved penicillin worked on head wounds.
• 1919 – 1952 Eva Peron (1919-1952) Died 26 July 1952, aged 33 Eva Peron, the influential First Lady of Argentina and wife of President Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer on 26 July 1952. Known as "Evita," she championed workers' rights and women's suffrage and was revered by much of the Argentine working class. Her body was embalmed and became the subject of a decades-long saga before permanent burial.
• 1952 Wimbledon 1952 Men: Frank Sedgman · Women: Maureen Connolly
• 1952 Cairns dies of cancer Oxford, United Kingdom He was 56, and had been warned for years that his workload would kill him. He did not live to see helmets made compulsory for civilian riders, the change his own research had argued for.
• 1952 1952 Summer Olympics XV Olympiad - Helsinki Most world records broken until 2008. Winner: USA.
• 1952 Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Free Officers Movement overthrows King Farouk Army officers led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Cairo on 23 July 1952. King Farouk abdicated three days later and went into exile. The coup ended the Muhammad Ali dynasty and led to Egypt becoming a republic the following year.
• 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US Commonwealth New constitution creates the Estado Libre Asociado Puerto Rico's constitution took effect on 25 July 1952, establishing it as a self-governing Commonwealth of the United States. Residents had approved the constitution by referendum earlier that year. The arrangement gave Puerto Rico local autonomy while it remained under US sovereignty.