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Toledo to enlarge playground on site recd from B'Nai Israel
sets 10 AM as start; rejects TWU plea to close schools to avert subway jam; all boros except SI affected; school bus services unchanged; United Parents Assns warns of effect on final exams
Dr J T Robinson holds new fossil finds, Swartkrans, S Africa, show Telanthropus was link between ape and man
Rejects E and J Rosenberg plea for judicial clemency
1953Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and author[†]
Justin Fleming is an Australian playwright, librettist and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, opera, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France. Fleming has been a barrister and vice president of the Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre. He is a member of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin.
1953Mohamed Waheed Hassan, Maldivian educator and politician, 5th President of the Maldives[†]
Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik is a Maldivian politician who served as president of the Maldives from 7 February 2012 to 17 November 2013, having succeeded to the office following the resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed, under whom he served as Vice President. He had previously worked as a news anchor, a teacher, a principle, a United Nations international civil servant with UNICEF, UNDP and UNESCO, and as a member of the Maldivian Parliament.
1953Peter Taylor, English footballer and manager[†]
Peter John Taylor is an English former footballer, appointed manager of Canvey Island in May 2025. He was previously manager at Dartford, Enfield, Southend United, Dover Athletic, Leicester City, Brighton and Hove Albion, Hull City, Crystal Palace, Kerala Blasters, Stevenage Borough, Wycombe Wanderers, Bradford City and (twice) Gillingham, Maldon & Tiptree. He also had two spells as head coach of the England under-21 team and took charge of the England national team as caretaker manager for one game against Italy, for which he made David Beckham captain of England for the first time. He managed the England under-20 team in 2013. Outside England, Taylor was the head coach of the Bahrain national football team.
1953Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.[†]
Frances Payne Bolton was an American politician from the Republican Party. She served in the United States House of Representatives, and was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]