Events in History in 1952 (Part 2)

Nov 20 Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.

Nov 21 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
Nov 22 As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
Nov 25 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
Nov 26 1st 3D feature film "Bwana Devil" directed by Arch Oboler premieres in Los Angeles, advertised as "The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!"

Nov 29 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

Dec 1 The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation
Dec 3 Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
Dec 4 Walter P. Reuther chosen chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the US
Dec 5 Great Smog of London (England): Killer fog creeps in, as still winds and cold temperatures cause pollution fueled by coal smoke to stagnate; lasting 4 days, over 8,000 deaths attributed to conditions [1] [2]
Dec 6 Czech government tells Israeli ambassador that he is persona non grata
Dec 8 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
Dec 8 French troops shoot at anti-colonial demonstrators in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 50
Dec 8 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
Dec 9 Great Smog of London (England): Wind resumes, lifting city's worst smog after 4 days; over 8,000 deaths attributed to conditions; clean air legislation enacted in its wake [1] [2]
Dec 10 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
Dec 14 UN Troops kill 82 North Korean POWs during a prison camp riot in Pongam-do, South Korea
Dec 15 Christine Jorgenson is the first known American to undergo a sex-change operation

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