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H Hickman resigns, Yale; to accept TV offer; to scout; Hickman, Yale statements; Yale repr denies alumni forced Hickman out; Hickman career revd
Knight bars LoDolce extradition; rules Italy had no control of area where Holohan was killed; blames Icardi for plotting death; says higher ct can not rev ruling; LoDolce, Icardi, DiBartolo and J R Holahan comment; LoDolce illus; US officials see ruling final
deposed by Parliament in favor of son Hussein; held mentally unfit to rule; decision on future left to Hussein and Queen Zeine; reign revd
Gross ex-clerk S Coico testifies Gross borrowed $4,500 from him, '50; defense attys stress loan in attempt to show Gross had no money for payoffs; other witnesses
Wyatt and Mitchell to accompany Stevenson
1952Daniel Biles, American associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court[†]
William Daniel Biles is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Biles was appointed on January 7, 2009, by Governor Kathleen Sebelius to replace retiring Chief Justice Kay McFarland.
1952Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (died 2024)[†]
Sitaram Yechury was an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who was a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) from 1992 until his death in September 2024. Previously, he was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, West Bengal, from 2005 to 2017.
1952David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (born 1884)[†]
David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer born in the Russian Empire. He lived for a time in Berlin, Germany, before moving to the Soviet Union following the Nazi rise to power in Germany. He was a victim of the post-war antisemitic "rootless cosmopolitan" campaign and one of those executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets.
1952The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.[†]
The Night of the Murdered Poets occurred on 12 August 1952, and it involved the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Arrests were made in September 1948 and June 1949, with all defendants having been falsely accused of espionage and treason, as well as many other crimes. Following their arrests and detention, they were tortured, beaten, and isolated for three years before being formally charged. There were five Yiddish writers among these defendants, all of whom were part of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]