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Amer Christian Palestine Com mission holds UN plan unworkable and dangerous; holds shrines safe: urges UN Comm merely assure access to them; repts religious leaders in Palestine oppose UN plan; urges US to seek reconsideration by UN
Pittsburgh power cutoff postponed; Inland Steel output cut near
Min Malik (USSR) walks out, Big 5-Canada conf, to protest Chinese Nationalist representation; other reprs score move; hold progress halted; permit pub of conf minutes; Asst Sec Hickerson (US) comments
1950Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor[†]
Daniel Benzali is a retired Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.
1950William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (died 2014)[†]
William Augustao Mgimwa was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kalenga constituency from 2010 to 2014. He also served as Tanzania's Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014.
1950Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerien politician, President of Niger[†]
Mahamane Ousmane is a Nigerien politician. Elected as the fourth President of Niger at 43 years old, he is the youngest elected president in Africa. He was also the first democratically elected president of his country, serving from 16 April 1993 until he was deposed in a military coup d'état on 27 January 1996. He has continued to run for president in each election since his ouster, and he was president of the National Assembly from December 1999 to May 2009. Since April 2020, he is the president of the Democratic and Republican Renewal, a major political party that is currently in opposition. RDR Tchanji formed an alliance with Ousmane's other political vehicle, MNRD Hankuri, on 16 December 2018.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]