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Natl Planning Assn urges larger farms, modernization and crop diversification
Eucharistic rally; Cardinal Spellman s
ALP to name own candidate; Repr Marcantonio reptd not desiring nomination; S Seabury announces list of 101 members of a fusion com
$2.8 billion divd payment set for Jan '50; $140 per person average seen
1949Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th president of Sri Lanka[†]
Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan retired politician and military officer who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. Before his presidency, he served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 during the regime of his brother, president Mahinda Rajapaksa, playing a central role in the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1949Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor[†]
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady", and "Still" with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.