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6th session
House, 217-124, rejects Repub amendment to bar all price rollbacks; Adm wins by splitting Repub-S Dems coalition; Johnston hails vote; House, 207-123, passes com compromise allowing 1st rollback on beef prices but barring others, limiting cutbacks in agr prices to less than 90% of May 19 '51 level; rejects, 129-65, Wolcott measure barring new rollbacks except on 'cost-plus' basis; rejects Cooley and Cox efforts to broaden it; backs com in rejecting Adm plan to use business licensing for price controls enforcement; rejects Multer effort to offset action; rejects, 92-47, G R Davis move to exempt from price controls services and goods sold by local govt units
F V Field imprisoned as Appeals Judge Swan denies plea for bail pending appeal and revokes order allowing temporary bail; Appeals Judge Hand revokes order for Hammett and Hunton release in bail
US Army repts no Amer soldier killed in action, day, for 1 st time in 53 wks
flood crest nears Jefferson City; Mo and Kan Rivers receding; map; Mississippi rising; USCG ready to evacuate Alton-Cape Girardeau area; rrs out; Mo River bridges closed; Gov Peterson calls Missouri River States Com conf to map relief; NPA gives affected indus high priorities; ARC sees $1.5 million needed to care for over 126,000 victims; Disaster Corps starts cleanup; area map
1951Elio Di Rupo, Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium[†]
Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014, heading the Di Rupo Government, and as minister-president of Wallonia for three non-consecutive terms between 1999 and 2024. He was the first francophone to hold the prime ministership since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979, and the country's first socialist prime minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. Di Rupo was also Belgium's first prime minister of non-Belgian descent, and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.
1951Margo Martindale, American actress[†]
Margo Martindale is an American character actress who has appeared on television, film, and stage. In 2011, she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for her recurring role as Mags Bennett on Justified. She was nominated for an Emmy Award four times for her recurring role as Claudia on The Americans, winning it in 2015 and 2016.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]