Events
- The film Shane is released on Earth, featuring actors Alan Ladd, Jack Palance and Brandon De Wilde. (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon")
- Gaunt Gary hustles Willie Mosconi in the Ames Pool Hall in New York City. (VOY: "The Cloud")
- The Human Soviet leader Josef Stalin dies on Earth. Douglas Pabst will comment snidely that Herbert Rossoff has been angry ever since. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
| 1952 | 20th century 1950s |
1954 |