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Malik uses powers as Security Council Pres to call meeting on charges against US; Amb Gross (US) says USSR seeks new forum for campaign of lies; says US welcomes chance to reply
USSR renews settlement talks; offers to return 186 ships and buy 167 others rejected by US; rev
Rds jamed as result of LIRR strike; parking bans eased in some areas
House set to pass Doughton bill revised to offset AMA 'socialized med' charge; Ford call for record vote blocks action; amended bill gives Admr Ewing only gen power to ascertain disability; Reed assails bill, Doughton defends it
BLE chief J P Shields hints at strikes on rrs not covered by master pact; cites 64 rrs
1952Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager[†]
Michael James Milbury is an American former professional ice hockey player and current sports announcer. He played for twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), all for the Boston Bruins. He helped the Bruins reach the Stanley Cup Finals in 1977 and 1978. He is also a member of the U.S hockey hall of fame.
1952Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, English educator and politician, Secretary of State for Education[†]
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley,, is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.
1952Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (born 1914)[†]
John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
1952Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.[†]
Decree 900, also known as the Agrarian Reform Law, was a Guatemalan land-reform law passed on June 17, 1952, during the Guatemalan Revolution. The law was introduced by President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán and passed by the Guatemalan Congress. It redistributed unused land greater than 90 hectares in area to local peasants, compensating landowners with government bonds. Land from at most 1,700 estates was redistributed to about 500,000 individuals—one-sixth of the country's population. The goal of the legislation was to move Guatemala's economy from pseudo-feudalism into capitalism. Although in force for only eighteen months, the law had a major effect on the Guatemalan land-reform movement.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]