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Fed officials reptd ready to recommend that Pres appt extra legal fact-finding bd if Ching fails
NY Times survey of 14 countries finds acute teacher shortage
G M Malenkov charges US 'warmongers' seek world empire, but will destroy themselves, s, Moscow; sees USSR calm
Min Schuman sees concessions on Ger dismantling program leading to Cabinet fall
With results of tomorrow's election doubtful, the leading candidates for state, city and local offices will continue their appeals for votes on election eve and will not end their campaigns until a few hours before the opening of the polls at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
1949Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2009)[†]
Turner Stephen Bruton was an American actor and musician.
1949Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (died 2016)[†]
Steven Edward Stucky was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
1949David S. Ware, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2012)[†]
David Spencer Ware was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
1949The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform.[†]
Neft Daşları is an industrial settlement in Baku, Azerbaijan. The settlement forms part of the municipality of Çilov-Neft Daşları in the Pirallahy raion. It lies 86 km (53 mi) away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and 39 km (24 mi) from the nearest mainland shore in the Caspian Sea. A full town on the sea, it was the first oil platform in Azerbaijan, and the first operating offshore oil platform in the world, incorporating numerous drilling platforms. It is featured in Guinness World Records as the world's first offshore oil platform.