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Pres Truman says lower bracket incomes can be raised to $3,000 under Fair Deal, s, Kan City
Major league baseball's two sizzling pennant races continued to keep the nation's fans in a turmoil of excitement yesterday.
Tribune, Economist and other pubs urge early election
Assembly votes to hear charges
USSR bases denunciation of treaty with Yugoslavia on alleged trial revelations
1949Michel Tognini, French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut[†]
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.
1949The Berlin Airlift ends.[†]
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin.