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MOSCOW, Sept. 12 -- A highly informed source said tonight resumption of the four-power talks in Moscow was "quite likely" this week. The informant made his prediction following the arrival in Moscow of Francois Seydoux, political and diplomatic adviser to Lieut. Gen. Joseph-Pierre Koenig, French Military Governor in Germany.
8 alleged Greek Communist passengers force pilot to land Athens-Salonika plane in Skoplje, Yugoslavia; they disembark and allow plane to return to Greece
liaison office established to control property in Israel
Suicide
Wallace challenges Truman, s, Baltimore
1948Nell Carter, American actress and singer (died 2003)[†]
Nell Carter was an American actress and singer.
1948Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist and academic[†]
Dimitri V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 48,500 times across a number of separate branches of science.
1948Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji[†]
Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka is a Fijian politician, sportsman, and former soldier who has been serving as Prime Minister of Fiji since 24 December 2022. He was the instigator of two military coups in 1987. He was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999, and again in 2022, leading a three-party coalition. He also served as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs from 1999 to 2001, and later as Chairman of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council from 2001 to 2008.
1948Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.[†]
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was an Indian independence activist and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and India's political integration. In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar, meaning "chief". He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
1948Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.[†]
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress. A Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech "Declaration of Conscience".