December 1952 in History

Events in History

Dec 15 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias

Dec 19 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands unveils statue "Docker" ("Dokwerker"), memorializing the February Strike of 1941 over the arrest of 450 Jews for the killing of a Nazi sympathizer; designed by Mari Andriessen, it was relocated in 1970 from Amsterdam's Waterlooplein Market to Jonas Daniel Meijerplein (Square)
Dec 21 Broadway Tunnel opens in San Francisco
Dec 22 French government of Pinay, resigns
Dec 23 Alain Bombard arrives in Barbados after 65 days at sea proving his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive with almost no provisions, despite having lost 25 kg (65 lbs) in weight
Dec 29 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
Dec 30 Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US

Dec 1 Rick Scott, American politician (Senator-R-Florida 2019-, Governor of Florida 2011-19), born in Bloomington, Illinois
Dec 2 Carol Shea-Porter, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire), born in NYC, New York
Dec 3 Benny Hinn, American televangelist
Dec 4 Ronald M. Sega, American professor of systems engineering and astronaut (STS 60, 76), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Dec 6 Craig Newmark, American entrepreneur and founder of the website Craigslist, born in Morristown, New Jersey
Dec 7 Susan Collins, American politician (U.S. Senator from Maine), born in Caribou, Maine
Dec 8 Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister, born in Penang, Malaysia
Dec 12 Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician, born in Chiheru, Punjab, India
Dec 15 Julie Taymor, American film and stage director (The Lion Kong, Frida), born in Newton, Massachusetts
Dec 17 Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
Dec 23 William Kristol, American political commentator, born in NYC, New York
Dec 27 Jay Hill, Canadian politician
Dec 28 Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
Dec 30 Larry Bartlett, photographic printer

Dec 1 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19) who represented Italy at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, dies at 92
Dec 4 Karen Horney, German-American neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
Dec 8 Charles Lightoller, British mariner (Second Officer of HMS Titanic), WWI Royal Navy officer, WWII Small Vessels Pool volunteer, dies of heart disease at 78
Dec 12 Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (development of Hittitology), dies at 73
Dec 15 Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary known as the Father of Andhra for conducting a 56 day hunger strike in support of a separate Telugu-speaking state, fasts to death at 51, sparking rioting and 3 days later Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to declare an intention to form Andhra Pradesh state
Dec 24 Hans Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist (worked with Niels Bohr on electromagnetic waves), dies at 58
Dec 26 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59
Dec 27 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
Dec 27 Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest, dies at 74
Dec 30 Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies