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October 8, 1952
On October 8, 1952, the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England kills 112 people. Simon Cowell, Louka Katseli, Gerald Early would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 8, 1952
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England kills 112 people.
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.
Around 1952
The year in brief
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.
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On October 8, 1952
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1952 The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in England kills 112 people. 1952 train crash in Wealdstone, England
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1952
- April 11 Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
- April 11 Pan Am Flight 526A ditches near San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.
- April 15 First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
- April 21 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
- April 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
- April 28 The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
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