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Dewey and Driscoll conf; illus; Dewey promises to seek $500,000 for Comm; Driscoll pledges funds; both states to use existing agencies; will not create interstate body; Govs urge residents to come forward with crime data
Hibok Hibok erupts, Camiguin Is; 100 reptd killed; hundreds missing; evacuation started
Quill, on TV program, pledges to comply with no-strike order; Kaufman rejects TWU bids to vacate order and hold jury trial on co charge that TWU violates contract; Quill hints peace on other lines; 3d Av workers get TWU leaflets warning against strike; TWU to ask Appeals Ct nullify Kaufman order and allow strike vote; other developments
dinner; $120,000 raised; Dirksen, others s
Brit and Egyptians clash, Suez; 7-9 Brit, 16 Egyptians reptdly killed, 68 wounded; Brit and Egyptian versions
1951Gary Rossington, American guitarist (died 2023)[†]
Gary Robert Rossington was an American musician best known as a founding guitarist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, with whom he performed until his death. Rossington was also a founding member of the Rossington Collins Band, along with former bandmate Allen Collins. Rossington was both the longest-serving and last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd by the time of his death.
1951Patricia Wettig, American actress and playwright[†]
Patricia Anne Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]