Child 'Burglar Club' Causes $4,300 Loss
4 boys and girl, 10 and 11, held as burglars, Queens
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4 boys and girl, 10 and 11, held as burglars, Queens
Pres Water Resources Policy Comm 1st sec of water and land resources survey
TWUA asks cost-of-living raise and other benefits, wage conf, Washington, DC; E Rieve comments
ESA sees direct controls virtually in effect; will roll back unjustified price and wage rises; WSB issues 1st statement; Sens George and O'Mahoney urge controls now
1950Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Gillian May Armstrong is an Australian feature film and documentary director, best known for My Brilliant Career (1979), Mrs. Soffel (1984), High Tide (1987), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), and Little Women (1994). She is a Member of the Order of Australia. She has won many film awards, including an AFI Best Director Award, has been nominated for numerous others, and is the holder of several honorary doctorates.
1950Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (died 2002)[†]
Randolpho Francisco Castillo was an American musician. He was Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and later as drummer for Mötley Crüe, from 1999 to 2000.
1950Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician[†]
Field Marshal Gardihewage Sarath Chandralal Fonseka is a Sri Lankan retired army officer. He was the eighteenth Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 2005 to 2009, and under his command the Sri Lankan Army ended the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, defeating the militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; he thereafter briefly served as the Chief of Defence Staff. After retiring from the Army with the rank of General, he entered politics as the common opposition candidate in the 2010 presidential election contesting against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

1950Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (died 2015)[†]
Juan Baños was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler better known by the ring name Lizmark. The name was taken from the German battleship Bismarck. He was a multiple-time champion, having held singles and tag team championships in both Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre / Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (EMLL/CMLL) and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). In 2001, Lizmark was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. His nickname was El Geniecillo Azul, which is Spanish for "The Little Blue Genius". He has two sons who are also professional wrestlers, Lizmark, Jr. and El Hijo de Lizmark.
1950Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic[†]
Leonard Michael Maltin is an American film critic, film historian, and author. He is known for his book of film capsule reviews, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, published from 1969 to 2014. Maltin was the film critic on Entertainment Tonight from 1982 to 2012. He currently teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and hosts the weekly podcast Maltin on Movies. He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and votes for films to be selected for the National Film Registry.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]