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Mortgage money has gone into hiding or into short-term loans to await a clarification of the market outlook.
enemy continues drive on Seoul despite gunfire from USS Toledo off Inchon; seizes Uijongbu; UN forces fall back on Seoul; beat off night attack S of Yanggu; abandon Chunchon; NKs use cows to aid advance; fighting sporadic along most of front; enemy believed to have outrun supplies; Lt Gen Almond lauds UN troops
IT'S been a long time since movie-goers were troubled to any great extent by that form of embarrassing annoyance known as "artiness" on the screen. Most of the fakers and pretenders who practiced in by-gone days have faded away with the tea cups
1951Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (died 2001)[†]
Ralph Dale Earnhardt was an American professional stock car driver and racing team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. His aggressive driving style earned him the nicknames "the Intimidator", "the Man in Black" and "Ironhead"; after his son Dale Earnhardt Jr. joined the Cup Series circuit in 1999, Earnhardt was generally known by the retronyms Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Dale Sr. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history and was named as one of the NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers class in 1998.
1951Jon Stanhope, Australian politician[†]
Jonathan Donald Stanhope is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2011. He is the only ACT Chief Minister to have governed with a majority in the ACT Assembly. From 2012 to 2014 Stanhope was Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, which consists of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
1951Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)[†]
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]