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Frederick, Md, makes final payment to banks an ransom loan to prevent destruction; another attempt to be made to get Fed Govt to assume $600,000 interest obligation
Defense Dept to call 55,900 for Nov-Dec; USMC to get 19,900
Brit note delivered to Council; debate set; Mossadegh to fly to US to attend; por; Iranian bid for postponement seen; US uncommitted; GB worried on US stand
1951John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer[†]
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI. He presents BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.
1951Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
1951Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic[†]
Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]