Thank goodness for the Internet! Without it, it would have been so difficult to figure out what was happening in 1952, 64 years ago. So, I was born in Montreal in 1952. On a macro level, the biggest event was the death of King George V of England and his daughter Elizabeth becoming queen. She has actually just turned 90 so she has been queen a very long time--she is both the oldest monarch and the longest reigning monarch in England's history. My parents weren't terribly royalist I don't think but I do remember some coronation china in my mother's cupboard. And when the Queen visited Montreal in 1956 (?) my mother, grandmother, aunt and cousin all went out onto Hochelaga street and waved at her as she drove by. Dr. Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize for his medical work in Africa. By today's standards he wasn't a great doctor but when I was a child he was revered for what we were told were his kindness and selflessness. Reading his biography on Wikipedia,