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LONDON, Feb. 14 -- Queen Elizabeth II seized a brief respite from the new duties crowding heavily upon her and spent a few minutes tonight in solemn contemplation in Westminster Hall where the body of her father King George VI is lying in state.
US experts on Brazil-US Development Comm to back bid for nearly $45-million loan from IBRD and Export-Import Bank for improvements
NYS studies city requests; estimates auto use tax yield at $10 million
Sen Connally bids Sen demand break with Hungary in retaliation; urges US Hungarian mission's funds be withheld if Pres refuses to act; scores Truman for yielding to 'blackmail'; US position outlined
Asking subpoena authority for N Morris, head of Adm corruption probe
1952Tomislav Nikolić, Serbian politician, 4th President of Serbia[†]
Tomislav Nikolić is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he disassociated himself from the party in 2008 and formed the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) which he led until 2012.
1952Nikolai Sorokin, Russian actor and director (died 2013)[†]
Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was artistic director of the Rostov-on-Don academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky and a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation.
1952King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.[†]
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first Head of the Commonwealth following the London Declaration of 1949.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]