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Profs Haig and Shoup rept to Mayor's Mgt Survey Com urges system operate NYC munic colls
President Truman yesterday emphasized this country had no way to verify the prisoners list handed to the Allies by the Communists in Korea. Some of the Pentagon's skepticism was tempered by the feeling that the enemy might have yielded the data to try to gain a psychological advantage.
PARIS, Dec. 19--After a four-and-a-half-week debate, the Political and Security Committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved today the proposal of the Western Big Three for the establishment of a Disarmament Commission that would make a new...
session; UN bars bldg mil airfields; insists on full inspection, rotation; denies trying to interfere in NK internal affairs; lists Communist gains by truce
Bd denies Halley request for hearing of groups' spokesmen
1951Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, Northern Irish academic and police ombudsman[†]
Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan,, is a public figure in Northern Ireland. From 1999 to 2007, she was the first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. In July 2009, it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords and she was so appointed in September 2009. In December 2010, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, appointed her as the chairwoman of its governing authority. She is a columnist with The Irish Catholic.
1951Marta Russell, American author and activist (died 2013)[†]
Marta Russell was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by Common Courage Press analyzes the relationship between disability, social Darwinism, and economic austerity under capitalism. Her political views, which she described as "left, not liberal," informed her writing on topics such as healthcare, the prison-industrial complex, physician-assisted suicide, poverty, ableism, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
1951The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.[†]
Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Arco, Idaho. It was the world's first breeder reactor. At 1:50 p.m. on December 20, 1951, it became one of the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plants when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs. EBR-I soon generated sufficient electricity to power its building and the town of Arco, and continued to be used for experimental research until it was decommissioned in 1964. The museum is open for visitors from late May until early September.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]