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March 30, 1949

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' CULTURE' VISITORS TOLD BY U.S. TO END TOUR AND GO HOME; State Department Says Visas to Iron Curtain Delegates Were Only for Meeting WARNING LETTERS ISSUED Itinerary, Scheduled Across Nation, Halted Before First Gathering in Newark Culture Parley Tourists Barred From Trip and Told to Go Home

By Kalman Seigel

State Dept and Atty Gen ban delegates tour; say visas were only for conf; Newark rally substitute program noted; Moulton and Wallace protest; Yale bars Shostakovich program

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Notable Births

1949Liza Frulla, Canadian talk show host and politician, 3rd Minister of Canadian Heritage[†]

Liza Frulla, formerly known as Liza Frulla-Hébert, is a former Canadian politician. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 1998, a Liberal Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2006, and a member of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Dana Gillespie

1949Dana Gillespie, English singer-songwriter and actress[†]

Richenda Antoinette de Winterstein Gillespie, known professionally as Dana Gillespie, is an English actress, singer and songwriter. Originally performing and recording in her teens, over the years Gillespie has been involved in the recording of over 70 albums, and appeared in stage productions, such as Jesus Christ Superstar, and several films. Her musical output has progressed from teen pop and folk in the early part of her career, to rock in the 1970s and, more recently, the blues.

Naomi Sims

1949Naomi Sims, American model and author (died 2009)[†]

Naomi Ruth Sims was an American model, businesswoman and author. She is widely credited as being one of the first African-American supermodels. Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the covers of Ladies' Home Journal and Life.

Notable Deaths

Friedrich Bergius

1949Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)[†]

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry.

1949Dattaram Hindlekar, Indian cricketer (born 1909)[†]

Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar was a cricketer who kept wicket for India in Test cricket.

Historical Events

Cold War

1949Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.[†]

The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.