Timeline June 1952

Events in June 1952 5

• 1859 – 1952 John Dewey (1859-1952) Died 1 June 1952, aged 92 John Dewey, the American philosopher and education reformer who championed progressive, experience-based learning, died in New York on 1 June 1952. He was a founding figure of pragmatism alongside William James and Charles Sanders Peirce. His ideas reshaped educational theory across the twentieth century.
• 1889 – 1952 Efim Bogoljubov Twice World Championship challenger Efim Bogoljubov was one of the leading grandmasters of the early 20th century and challenged Alekhine twice for the world title.
• 1952 French Open 1952 Men: Jaroslav Drobný · Women: Doris Hart
• 1952 Jonas Salk begins testing polio vaccine First human trials of an inactivated poliovirus vaccine Jonas Salk began testing his experimental polio vaccine on children at the Watson Home for Crippled Children in Pittsburgh in 1952, during the worst US polio epidemic on record. The trials followed earlier tests on Salk himself and his family. Results paved the way for the large-scale field trials of 1954.
• 1952 – 2016 Pat Summitt (1952-2016) Died 28 June 2016, aged 64 Summitt was the head coach of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team for 38 seasons, winning eight national championships. She retired in 2012 after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She remains one of the most successful coaches in college basketball history.