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November 1, 1949

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U. S., BRITAIN DECIDE TO REOPEN QUESTION OF JAPANESE PEACE; Acheson and Bevin Discussed Step in Recent Conversation -- Emphasis on Speed NEW STUDY IS UNDER WAY Concurrent Reviews of Policy Pushed in the Foreign Office and State Department U. S. and Britain Decide to Reopen Question of a Treaty With Japan

By James Restonspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The United States and Britain have decided to reopen the question of a Japanese peace treaty as quickly as possible, it was learned today.

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Notable Births

Jeannie Berlin

1949Jeannie Berlin, American actress[†]

Jeannie Berlin is an American film, television and stage actress and screenwriter, the daughter of Elaine May. She is best known for her role in the 1972 comedy film The Heartbreak Kid, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She later played the leading role in Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975), and has acted in films such as Margaret (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Café Society (2016), The Fabelmans (2022), and You Hurt My Feelings (2023). She also acted in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), the Amazon Prime series Hunters (2020), and the HBO series Succession (2019–2023).

David Foster

1949David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer[†]

David Walter Foster is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 45 nominations. He is one of the few artists who consistently produced popular hit music over four decades: the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

Michael D. Griffin

1949Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer[†]

Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as deputy of technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA administrator, Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future human spaceflight to Mars, and the fate of the Hubble telescope.

1949Belita Moreno, American actress and acting coach[†]

Aurabela "Belita" Moreno is an American actress best known for her roles as Benita "Benny" Lopez on the ABC sitcom George Lopez and Edwina Twinkacetti and Lydia Markham on Perfect Strangers.

Historical Events

Eastern Air Lines Flight 537

1949All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed when the Douglas DC-4 operating the flight collides in mid-air with a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft over Alexandria, Virginia.[†]

Eastern Air Lines Flight 537, registration N88727, was a Douglas DC-4 aircraft en route from Boston, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., via intermediate points on November 1, 1949. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning, registered NX-26927, was being test-flown for acceptance by the government of Bolivia by Erick Rios Bridoux of the Bolivian Air Force. The two aircraft collided in mid-air at an altitude of 300 feet (91 m) about one-half mile (0.80 km) southwest of the threshold of Runway 3 at Washington National Airport, killing all 55 aboard the DC-4 and seriously injuring the pilot of the P-38. At the time, it was the deadliest airliner incident in United States history.