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The underwater atomic bomb set off in Bikini lagoon yesterday sank the battleship Arkansas and the aircraft carrier Saratoga and plunged four submarines to the bottom.
USSR repr Gromyko flatly rejects US proposal for semi-autonomous agency in comment on US memo 3, control com; insists Security Council must keep control; warns on danger of undermining veto power; H B Swope comments; holds UN majority would back US plan
Constitutional amendment to guarantee employes bargaining rights approved by Sen com
LOW FLYING: Reptd Coast Guard plane barely misses Empire State Bldg in haze; pilot of plane carrying Sec Snyder denies connection
1946JosĂ© Areas, Nicaraguan drummer[â ]
JosĂ© Octavio "Chepito" Areas DĂĄvila is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969â1977 and 1987â1989.
1946Nicole Farhi, French fashion designer and sculptor[â ]
Nicole Farhi, Lady Hare, CBE is a French former fashion designer. In mid-career in London, she took up sculpture and, on retirement from the fashion industry, became a sculptor.
1946John Gibson, American radio host[â ]
John David Gibson is an American radio talk show host. As of September 2008, he hosts the syndicated radio program The John Gibson Show. He formerly co-hosted the weekday edition of The Big Story on Fox News.
1946Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer[â ]
Alfarita Constantia Marley is a Jamaican reggae singer. She is the widow of reggae musician Bob Marley. Along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, Rita was a member of the reggae vocal group the I Threes, and the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers.
1946P. Selvarasa, Sri Lankan politician[â ]
Ponnambalam Selvarasa is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament.
1946Ljupka Dimitrovska, Macedonian-Croatian pop singer (died 2016)[â ]
Ljupka Dimitrovska was a Macedonian-born Croatian singer. Internationally, she was best known for "Adio," written by Nikica Kalogjera and Ivica KrajaÄ, which won the first prize at the 1970 Athens pop song festival. She died in Zagreb, aged 70.
1946The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.[â ]
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.