14 – West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank. August 16 – Lynmouth, North Devon, England is devastated by floods; 34 die. August 18: A 7.5 earthquake shakes the Tibet region leaving a balance of 54 fatalities. August 22 – The most damaging aftershock of the 1952 Kern County earthquake sequence strikes with a moment magnitude of 5.8, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This event damages several hundred buildings in Bakersfield, California, with total additional losses of $10 million, with two associated deaths and some injuries. August 26 – A British passenger jet makes a return crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the same day. August 27 – Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg: Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks. August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York. August 30 – The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union. August 31 – The Grenzlandring racetrack closes in Wegberg, Germany. September–October September 2 – Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis perform the first open-heart surgery, at the University of Minnesota. September 6 – The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada. September 10 – The European Parliamentary Assembly (from March 1962, the European Parliament) opens. September 15 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. September 18 – The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations. September 30 – The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published. October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. October 17 – 17 October affair: Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council; Sukarno avoids confrontation. October 19 – Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days; he reaches them December 23. October 20 – Martial law is declared in Kenya, in the face of the Mau Mau uprising. November–December November 1 – Nuclear testing and Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons. November 4 1952 United States presidential election: Republican General