What day of the week was November 1, 1952?

The day of the week November 1st, 1952 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 54 days until Christmas.

Dixie Lee. American actress the singer, and dancer (b. 1911) died on this day in 1952.

Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb the codenamed "Mike" "M" for megaton, in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.