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Ireland legation elevated to embassy, Min Garrett named Amb; M Cummings role noted
RAF officer and 1 Amer killed as USAF B-45 explodes in mid-air, Dayton, Ohio; 1 escapes
co cuts wages 2c hrly under cost-of-living contract with UAW; action seen causing contract fight in Apr negotiations; UAW official comments
1950Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (died 2006)[†]
Francisco "Paquito" Fernández Ochoa was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Spain. Born in Madrid and raised north of the city in Cercedilla, he was the eldest of eight children whose father ran a ski school. Paquito raced in all of the alpine disciplines and specialized in slalom.
1950Neil Jordan, Irish film director, screenwriter and author[†]
Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and writer. He first achieved recognition for his short story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. After a stint working at RTÉ, he made his directorial debut with the 1982 film Angel.
1950Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician; 51st President of Argentina (died 2010)[†]
Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as first gentleman of Argentina during the early tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first person to serve in this role. Ideologically, he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive, with his political approach called Kirchnerism.
1950George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)[†]
George Richards Minot was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]