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Malik implies US drafted Lie plan; Lie denies Western Big 3 helped; Assembly, 51-5, adopts 9-power resolution; rejects USSR plan
Gen Assembly adopts underdeveloped areas 5-point study plan; gross natl product repts included; Sparkman statement
US 7th Div thrusts to border; captures Hyesanjin; finds no Chinese; other UN forces advance slowly; Chinese reptd demoralized; Chinese and NKs reptd mutually distrustful; captured Chinese deny volunteering; Capital Div reaches Yongchon; reptdly takes Chuchonhujang; US 7th Div and 1st Marines supplied by air; 1st Cavalry nears Kangjong; enters Ipsok; Commonwealth brigade stalled by roadblock, 4 mi W of Taeryong; guerrillas quit positions near Pyonggang; attack, Kaesong area; thrown back by Turks; attack S of Singye; repulsed by US 2d Div; Allied planes hampered by weather; B-29s hit Nanam
2 seeking to smuggle out $75,000 worth seized, NYC; linked to internatl ring
Macy resignation as Suffolk County Repub chmn linked; he comments on it; Dewey reptd to have asked him to destroy it
1950Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (died 2015)[†]
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Prosecutor General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor, he was responsible for thousands of controversial prosecutions, including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
1950Livingston Taylor, American singer-songwriter and musician[†]
Livingston Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Boston and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he is the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor, singer Alex Taylor, and innkeeper and singer Hugh Taylor. Taylor is most notable for his Billboard hits "I Will Be In Love With You", "First Time Love", and "I'll Come Running".
1950Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.[†]
The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is one of Canada's two main freight rail companies, along with Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]