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8 F-86s battle 10 MIGs, Sinuiju; B-29s hit supply area, SW of Hamhung, and rr yds, Kowon; B-26s wreck 55 trucks between Wonsan and front; fighter-bombers cut rrs, Pyongyang, Chinnampo, Kangdong, Haeju and Sinchon; hit 2 bridges E of Sariwon; light bombers hit truck convoys; map
legis seen mired as Sen, 70-21, bars curbs on closure; Taft and others say legis is not at issue; vote seen showing minimal strength of legis backers; roll-call
37 homeward-bound Korean veterans and crew of 3 missing in SE Idaho or Wyo on mil-chartered C-46 Seattle-Jackson, SC, flight; last heard from over Malad City, Idaho; passenger list; map
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower held his third meeting as President-elect yesterday with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, a ninety-five-minute session during most of which the two men were alone in a room of the fourth-floor apartment of Bernard M. Baruch, 4 East Sixty-sixth Street.
Pres Hannah on yr's leave to become Asst Defense Sec
1953Marián Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player[†]
Marián Šťastný is a Slovak former professional ice hockey right winger who played for five seasons in the National Hockey League from 1981 through 1986 for the Quebec Nordiques and Toronto Maple Leafs. Prior to moving to the NHL Šťastný had played in Czechoslovakia for Slovan ChZJD Bratislava with his brothers, Peter and Anton. They defected in 1980, joining the Nordiques, though Marián waited until 1981 to join them.
1953Bruce Sutter, American baseball pitcher (died 2022)[†]
Howard Bruce Sutter was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1976 and 1988. He was one of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making effective use of the split-finger fastball. A six-time All-Star and 1982 World Series champion, Sutter recorded a 2.83 career earned run average and 300 saves, the third-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement. Sutter won the National League's (NL) Cy Young Award in 1979 as its top pitcher, and won the NL Rolaids Relief Man Award four times. He became the only pitcher to lead the NL in saves five times.
1953Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (born 1883)[†]
Admiral Sir Thomas Hugh Binney, was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and the 16th Governor of Tasmania from 1945 to 1951.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]