1952 in the Philippines

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1952 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 1952.

Incumbents

President Elpidio Quirino

• President : Elpidio Quirino (Liberal)
• Vice President : Fernando Lopez (Liberal)
• Chief Justice : Ricardo Paras
• Congress : 2nd

Events

January–March

• February 14 – The Gallego EDCOR farm in Buldon, Cotabato, the second EDCOR project, is opened. ^[1]

April–June

• April 10 – Operation Four Roses, a counter-insurgency campaign whose main objective is to neutralize the four ranking leaders of the communist organization Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB; commonly known as Huks)—Luis Taruc, Jesus Lava, Alfredo Saulo, and Jose de Leon (Kumander Dimasalang), ^{[1] [2] [3]} begins. ^[4] The month-long operation by the Philippine Army will end with the deaths of 17 Huks and five soldiers, and the capture of nine Huks, although none of the main targets are among them. ^[2]
• April 11 – During the Operation Four Roses, two ranking Huk department members, William J. Pomeroy, an American and also the propaganda chief, and his wife Celia Mariano, along with up to 30 companions, are arrested by the army in a raid at a part of Sierra Madre in Papaya, Nueva Ecija, near its boundaries with the provinces of Bulacan and Quezon. ^[a]
• June 6 – The province of Zamboanga is divided into two—Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur, the latter includes Basilan and Zamboanga cities for the purpose of district representation, by virtue of Republic Act No. 711 which is enacted at the same day. ^[7]

July–September

• July 31 – Moro bandit leader Hadji Kamlon, believed by the national government already dead, appears and formally surrenders at Lahing-Lahing Beach (then under the jurisdiction of Luuk, Sulu). ^[1]
• August – The Philippine Army conducts an offensive against the Huks in the mountains of Zambales. The operation ends after 72 days with 72 of the estimated 200 guerrillas neutralized. ^[5]

October–December

• October 21–22 – A typhoon hits southern Luzon, killing 443 (as of October 24). Albay was the worst-hit province with 118 deaths reported in Tabaco. ^[8]
• December 15 – A river breaks through a gold mine in Paracale, Camarines Norte, causing it to collapse and engulfing 55 individuals in then the country's deadliest mining disaster. ^[9]

Holidays

Main article: Public holidays in the Philippines

As per Act No. 2711 section 29, ^[10] issued on March 10, 1917, any legal holiday of fixed date falls on Sunday, the next succeeding day shall be observed as legal holiday. Sundays are also considered legal religious holidays. Bonifacio Day was added through Philippine Legislature Act No. 2946. It was signed by then-Governor General Francis Burton Harrison in 1921. ^[11] On October 28, 1931, the Act No. 3827 was approved declaring the last Sunday of August as National Heroes Day. ^[12]

• January 1 – New Year's Day
• February 22 – Legal Holiday
• March 29 – Maundy Thursday
• March 30 – Good Friday
• May 1 – Labor Day
• July 4 – Philippine Republic Day
• August 13 – Legal Holiday
• August 26 – National Heroes Day
• November 22 – Thanksgiving Day
• November 30 – Bonifacio Day
• December 25 – Christmas Day
• December 30 – Rizal Day

Births

• July 10 – Evelio Leonardia, politician

Notes

1. Multiple citations (Pomeroy's arrest); with mentions of any of these:
   • W. Pomeroy only ^{[4] [5]}
   • W. Pomeroy and C. Mariano ^{[1] [2] [6]}
   • Companions: 15 (along with Pomeroy); ^[4] two commanders and 28 followers (along with the two) ^[1]

References

1. Ryan, Allyn (2007). RM: A Biographical Novel of Ramon Magsaysay. United States: Xlibris Corporation. ISBN   978-1-4257-9161-2 . Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Google Books.
2. "IV: The Rebirth of the Army". [Publication name missing] . Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Armed Forces of the Philippines Museum; Oocities.
3. Lanzona, Vina (2009). Amazons of the Huk Rebellion. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN   978-0-299-23093-7 . Retrieved January 27, 2025– via Google Books.
4. "American Leader of Huks Captured". Reading Eagle . Reading, Pennsylvania. Associated Press. April 11, 1952. pp. 1, 20. Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Google Books.
5. Greenberg, Lawrence (1986). "VI: The Insurrection - Phase II (1950–1955)". The Hukbalahap Insurrection: A Case Study of a Successful Anti-Insurgency Operation in the Philippines, 1946-1955. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History . Retrieved January 26, 2025– via U.S. Army Center of Military History.
6. "Captured Huk Chieftain Reports Rebel Disorder". Sarasota Herald-Tribune . Sarasota, Florida. United Press. April 16, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Google Books.
7. Republic Act No. 711 (June 6, 1952), Creation of the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur , retrieved January 28, 2025
8. "Philippine disaster". The Maryborough Chronicle . Maryborough, Queensland. Australian Associated Press. October 25, 1952. p. 1. Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Trove.
9. Citations (Camarines Norte incident):
   • "Forty-nine Die in Philippine Mine Disaster". Lewiston Evening Journal . Lewiston, Maine. Associated Press. December 15, 1952. p. 1. Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Google Books.
   • "Filipino mine disaster". The Cairns Post . Cairns, Queensland. Australian Associated Press. December 18, 1952. p. 1. Retrieved January 26, 2025– via Trove.
10. "AN ACT AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
11. "Bonifacio Day in Philippines in 2022". Official Holidays. Archived from the original on July 5, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
12. "Act No. 3827". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2022.