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B-29 with 16 aboard missing off Sao Jorge, Azores; USAF repts wreckage and 1 body found; no trace of survivors; craft en route to MacDill Field, Fla; C-47 with 10 aboard missing on Tripoli-Marseille run; search
Murtagh hints over $5,000 fine for NC truck co owner L W Harris for some 412 unanswered tickets to drivers for parking violations; orders ct records searched; wants NYS Tax and Motor Vehicle burs to revoke business licenses
TOKYO, Saturday, Dec. 8-- United Nations negotiators discussing an armistice in the Korean war offered today to withdraw Allied naval forces beyond territorial waters after a cease-fire, but demanded the right to sail the high seas north of the Thirtyeighth Parallel and hold captured islands offshore.
Grumet announces Capt Olsen and Firemen Bitetti, Gabrielsen, Kress, Levine, Maisto face Dept trial; Olsen suspended
1951Bill Bryson, American essayist, travel and science writer[†]
William McGuire Bryson is an American-British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. between 1995 and 2003, and holds dual American and British citizenship. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
1951Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell[†]
Richard Clive Desmond is a British publisher, businessman and former pornographer. He is the founder of Northern & Shell, a publisher that started by publishing music magazines in the 1970s, followed by variety of pornographic magazines in the 1980s. In the 1990s it launched celebrity magazines and Portland TV that produced pornographic television channels. In the early 2000s, the company sold the pornographic magazine titles and purchased the Express Newspapers, followed by Britain's Channel 5 in 2010. It launched the The Health Lottery in 2011. Channel 5 was sold in 2014, Portland TV in 2016 and the Express Newspapers in 2018.
1951Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jan Eggum is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He has been characterized as a "face for the melancholy", and the themes in his songs often revolve around broken hearts, loneliness, and sorrow. Sometimes, his lyrics include social criticism, but he also reveals trivial and funny sides of himself.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]