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Sen Hickenlooper demands AEC chmn D E Lilienthal resign; charges 'incredible mismgt'; Lilienthal denies charges; defends AEC record
tornadoes hit Cape Giradeau, Mo; 21 killed; 112 hurt; ARC aids victims; Wood River Ill, damage illus
Acheson, Bevin and Schuman agree on agenda proposals
Fed spending for educ
calls him war casualty
1949Daniel DiNardo, American cardinal[â ]
Daniel Nicholas DiNardo is an American Catholic retired prelate who served as Archbishop of Galveston-Houston from 2006 to 2025. He previously served as Coadjutor and later Bishop of Sioux City from 1997 to 2004.
1949Alan GarcĂa, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (died 2019)[â ]
Alan Gabriel Ludwig GarcĂa PĂ©rez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and was its only member to have served as President. Mentored by the founder of the APRA, VĂctor RaĂșl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978â1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide.
1949Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)[â ]
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made illustrations in gouache for Charles Baudelaire's famous Les Fleurs du mal for the Ghent collector and art patron LĂ©on Speltinckx with 157 gouaches. While he was a successful artist during most of his lifetime, his megalomaniac character made him a solitary and isolated individual.
1949Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.[â ]
The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Unlike occupied Japan, Nazi Germany was stripped of its sovereignty and its government was entirely dissolved. After Germany formally surrendered on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, the four countries representing the Allies asserted joint authority and sovereignty through the Allied Control Council (ACC).