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WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Strong pressures for elimination of war-time excise tax rates on so-called luxury goods and services erupted today in separate House and Senate actions aimed at forcing the issue.
WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The Senate, by a vote of 51 to 42, today wrecked the Administration's six months of effort to repeal the Taft-Hartley Labor Act.
Sen Lodge overruled in attempt to bar funds for Sen Chamber remodeling if its appearance is changed
Horner, W: 6 Negroes to get new trials, NJ Sup Ct decision, Trenton
1949Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter[†]
Néjia Ben Mabrouk is a Tunisian screenwriter and director, known for her work on the award-winning film Sama and on the documentary The Gulf War... What Next?.
1949John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter[†]
John Peter Farnham is an Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until the mid-1970s, billed as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985.
1949David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996)[†]
H. David Hogan was an American composer and musical director of CIGAP, a choir composed of openly gay men.
1949Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician[†]
Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
1949The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.[†]
Kochi, formerly known as Cochin, is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernakulam. As of 2011, the Kochi Municipal Corporation had a population of 677,381 over an area of 94.88 km2, and the larger Kochi urban agglomeration had over 2.1 million inhabitants within an area of 440 km2, making it the largest and the most populous metropolitan area in Kerala. Kochi city is also part of the Greater Cochin development region and is classified as a Tier-II city by the Government of India. The civic body that governs the city is the Kochi Municipal Corporation, which was constituted in the year 1967, and the statutory bodies that oversee its development are the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) and the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA).