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Majlis passes Sen-approved prohibition bill; resurgence of Islamic feeling is factor; 'wet' pleas of Omar Khayvam recalled
TWU asks Kheel permit to present case for early start of 40-hr wk on 3d Av lines
union dispute perils bagel supply, NYC
strike delays hundreds including Korean veterans; co asst vp J D Fenton charges union violated Ry Labor Act; holds union failed to tell members of 10¢-an-hr rise offer; union repr repts NMB delay plea not recd till after strike began; Korean airlift flights reptd on time; other strike effects
ed deploring lack of data on fate
1951Pat Hill, American football player and coach[†]
Lawrence Patrick Hill is an American football coach, former player, and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach at Fresno State from 1997 until his dismissal following the 2011 season. In 15 seasons as head coach as Fresno State, he led the Bulldogs to a record of 112–80, 11 bowl game appearances, and a share of the 1999 Western Athletic Conference title.
1951Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Kenneth S. Hitchcock is a Canadian former professional ice hockey coach. Hitchcock coached the Dallas Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, St. Louis Blues and Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He also served as an assistant coach for Canada national team in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Hitchcock became a major league coach in January of 1996 when the Dallas Stars named him coach with 43 games remaining in the season. The following season was the start of five elite years for the team, where they won five consecutive division championships to go along with reaching the Conference Finals in 1998, 1999, and 2000. The Stars advanced to the Stanley Cup in 1999, which they won in six games over the Buffalo Sabres. They reached the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals but lost to the New Jersey Devils in six games; Hitchcock was fired 50 games into the 2001-02 season. He was hired by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2002 and coached them to three playoff appearances, which included a Conference Finals appearance in 2004 but was fired eight games into the 2006 season. He was quickly hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets that year and coached four seasons, where he helped them reach their first Stanley Cup playoffs in 2009; he was fired the following season. He was hired to coach the St. Louis Blues in 2011, and in his first season he led them to their first division title in twelve years. They reached the Conference Finals once in 2016 but Hitchcock was fired in the middle of the 2016-17 season. Hitchcock initially retired after spending the 2017-18 season with the Stars as coach but returned to coach the last 62 games of the 2018-19 season for the Edmonton Oilers before he was let go. Hitchcock is the fourth-winningest coach in NHL history with a total of 849 victories. He was named a 2019 Order of Hockey in Canada recipient. Hitchcock was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 2023.
1951Tatyana Kazankina, Russian runner[†]
Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina is a Russian former runner who set seven world records and won a total of three gold medals at the Olympic Games for the Soviet Union. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. Kazankina competed for VSS Burevestnik.
1951The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.[†]
The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was a United States civil rights organization, formed in 1946 at a national conference for radicals and disbanded in 1956. It succeeded the International Labor Defense, the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, and the National Negro Congress, serving as a defense organization. Beginning about 1948, it became involved in representing African Americans sentenced to death and other highly prominent cases, in part to highlight racial injustice in the United States. After Rosa Lee Ingram and her two teenage sons were sentenced in Georgia, the CRC conducted a national appeals campaign on their behalf, their first for African Americans.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]