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House com votes Battle bill to bar econ and mil aid to nations shipping strategic items to USSR bloc; main features; improvement over Kem amendment noted
Brit freighter Nagaristan halted by Iranian gunboat, Persian Gulf
OPS sets price surveys for uniform community ceilings; Dir DiSalle hails program; G Hertz and M E Penry to survey NYC area
Resigns
Moscow diplomats see Korean truce offer link in chain of USSR peace moves; new USSR Eng language pub News stresses traditional amity with US and GB; E Tarle and A M Troyanovsky articles cited
1951Lucie Arnaz, American actress and singer[†]
Lucie Désirée Arnaz is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and the older sister of actor and musician Desi Arnaz, Jr.
1951Mark Bowden, American journalist and author[†]
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.
1951Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces[†]
Andrew Robert George Robathan, Baron Robathan, is a British Conservative Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire in Leicestershire as well as a government minister.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]