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Dewey s on Lynch tax bill, Schenectady; tours Warren, Washington Counties
UN Ad Hoc Pol Com approves resolution, 37-10, 12 abstaining, to revoke '46 ban on diplomatic relations and admission to specialized agencies; sees of '46 resolution scoring Franco regime remain in force; Sen Sparkman states US view; resolution text
Admr Valentine warns controls may be needed for yrs
Atty Gen McGrath interpretation of Internal Security Act scored by Fed Judge LaBuy, Chicago, as he releases F Lichota and P Kushnir on bail; Judge McGohey, NYC, reserves decision on motion to release on bail 11 aliens seized under act, after Govt seeks 20-day delay on hearing on detention legality; reserves decision on Jones, Smith, Siskind and Cattonar motion; they are ordered to surrender
1st issue and 100th anniv featured, Fashions of the Times
1950Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation[†]
Mitchell David Kapor is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. He left Lotus in 1986. In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. In 2003, he became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox. Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes via Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center. He serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by his wife, Freada Kapor Klein, to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building personal networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences.
1950Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Robert Betts Laughlin is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
1950Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2011)[†]
Daniel Milton Peek was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder of the band America, and later a "pioneer" in contemporary Christian music.
1950Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.[†]
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million residents, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]