What Happened on July 26, 1952

Historical Events

King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]

Sports History

Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer

Events in 1952

Famous Birthdays

Jan Randall, American-Canadian film, stage and broadcast composer (The Irrelevant Show; Poetry In Motion), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Scott David Cook, CEO (Intuit-Quicken), born in Glendale, California

Born in 1952

Famous Deaths

Eva Perón (1919-1952)

Argentine First Lady (1946-52) actress, suffragette, unionist and humanitarian who was inspiration for A.L. Webber's musical "Evita", dies of cancer at 33