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Lr to Sen Anderson urging passage of bill for state title to offshore oil lands
Dade Bros officials say US use of Port Newark for foreign aid shipments forced them to use Claremont Terminal, Sen (Tobey) subcom
Bundesrat 20-18, votes to delay ratification until Fed Const Ct rules; Maier swings opposition; Adenauer plans to get Pres Heuss to sign pact without Ct ruling; Maier says Bundesrat will not oppose move
champ J Carter defeats T Collins by TKO in 4th round after flooring him 10 times, Boston; TV fans, shocked by brutality of bout, swamp broadcasting station with protests; NYS Comr Christenberry scores bout; Boston City Counsellor F C Hailer Jr seeks probe; other reaction
NATO Council unanimously stresses need for ratification of EDC and NATO protocol setting relations with NATO: Bidault lack of enthusiasm noted; French reprs note French protocols have been accepted; Min Lloyd repts large area of agreement on Brit assn; Dulles and Sec Wilson link more US aid to ratification
1953Ron Clements, American animator, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Ronald Francis Clements is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director John Musker and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), The Princess and the Frog (2009), and Moana (2016).
1953Gary Cosier, Australian cricketer[†]
Gary John Cosier is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and nine One Day Internationals between 1975 and 1979. Cosier's star shone very briefly following a sensational debut, when he became only the ninth Australian to post a century in his first Test.
1953Anthony Venables, English economist, author, and academic[†]
Anthony James Venables, CBE,, is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
1953Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.[†]
Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]