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January 11, 1953

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Notable Births

1953Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household[โ€ ]

Graham William Allen is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham North from 1987 to 2017. He stood down at the 2017 general election.

Kostas Skandalidis

1953Kostas Skandalidis, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food[โ€ ]

Kostas Skandalidis is a Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the Athens A constituency.

Notable Deaths

Noe Zhordania

1953Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (born 1868)[โ€ ]

Noe Zhordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the socialist revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24, 1918, until March 18, 1921, when the Bolshevik Russian Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile to France. There Zhordania led the government-in-exile until his death in 1953.

Roberta Fulbright

1953Roberta Fulbright, American businesswoman (born1874)[โ€ ]

Roberta Fulbright was an American businesswoman who consolidated her husband's business enterprises and became an influential newspaper publisher, editor, and journalist. She used her paper to push civic responsibility and women's rights. Fulbright was the 1946 Arkansas Mother of the Year, a co-founder of the Arkansas Newspaper Women, and was posthumously inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in its inaugural group of honorees.

Historical Context for January 11, 1953

In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[โ€ ]