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Sec Johnson orders Joint Chiefs of Staff to re-study budget with view to rise for airplane procurement; Repr Vinson asks extra $583,289,221 for aircraft
subcom asks McCarthy for all his information, Tydings lr; McCarthy replies he will supply such data as be 'can' without disclosing sources; scores State Dept attempt to get names of dept sources; Tydings 2d lr says subcom does not want to know sources; will accept what McCarthy offers; denies knowledge of J E Hoover reptd comment that he regarded as security risk one person accused by McCarthy
Dist Ct rejects motion; case referred to 3-Judge ct
Deveze resigns; Charles conf with Eyskens; Socialists plan strike; Deveze comment
1950Ann C. Crispin, American writer (died 2013)[â ]
Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge.
1950Franklin Chang DĂaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist[â ]
Franklin Ramon Chang-DĂaz is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became an American citizen in 1977.
1950Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer[â ]
Agneta à se "Agnetha" Fältskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and a member of the pop group ABBA. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 self-titled debut album. She rose to international stardom in the 1970s as a member of ABBA, which is one of the best-selling music acts in history.
1950Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (died 2018)[â ]
Toshiko Fujita was a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of her death.
1950Miki ManojloviÄ, Serbian actor[â ]
Predrag "Miki" ManojloviÄ is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans and became active in productions all over Europe.
1950Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (born 1876)[â ]
Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape prints. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes. He traveled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[â ]