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Council session set; Iran optimistic on resumption of talks; Sir B N Rau and Min Zafrullah Khan visit Mossadegh; Fatemi comments on talks with Council members; por; US urges GB to reopen talks
NY Central asks PSC for 30% commuter fare rise on Hudson and Harlem divs to meet $2.5 million annual loss; exec F H Baird outlines case; table of current and proposed rates
DURING the summer of 1943 the relations of the British Government with de Gaulle deteriorated. We had made great efforts to bring together Frenchmen of all parties at Algiers, and I had constantly pressed the Americans to accept...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10--President Truman signed today the Mutual Security Bill authorizing $7,483,400,000 in foreign aid as a demonstration to the world that "we are joining with other peoples to prove by deeds that the way to freedom is the way of peace and human progress."
1951Bruce Bartlett, American economist, historian, and author[†]
Bruce Reeves Bartlett is an American historian and author. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. Bartlett also writes for the New York Times Economix blog.
1951Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (died 2008)[†]
Miroslav Dvořák was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1982 to 1985. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1989, was mainly spent with HC České Budějovice in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. Internationally Dvořák played for the Czechoslovak national team at several Ice Hockey World Championships, winning gold medals in 1976 and 1977, along with six silver medals, and a silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
1951Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French singer-songwriter and record producer whose work remains hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017, he has been the highest-grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active in the French music scene from 1975, Goldman had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s. As part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, he scored another string of hits in the 1990s.
1951Jon Miller, American sportscaster[†]
Jon Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
1951Louise Rennison, English author and comedian (died 2016)[†]
Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Rennison also wrote a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.
1951Charles Shyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)[†]
Charles Richard Shyer was an American filmmaker. Shyer's films are mainly comedies, often with a romcom overtone. His writing-directing credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The Parent Trap (1998), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), and Alfie (2004).
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]