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Govt starts to evacuate male Vietnamese from sensitive border areas to Phetchbun; fears they may aid Laos invaders; asks more US mil aid
C H Belfrage refuses to testify on role as US Govt aide in licensing postwar press or whether he planted Communists, House Un-Amer Activities Com hearing
grand jury urges Legis extend statute of limitations on apptd officials from 2 to 5 yrs
Communists reject UN plan to release all POWs immediately after truce signing; silent on Pakistan as neutral; Harrison repts no progress
Turkey to mfr $7.5-8 million worth of artillery shells for Allies under its 1st offshore procurement contract with US
1953Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (died 1986)[†]
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986.
1953Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[†]
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, and was special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East from 2007 to 2015. He is the second-longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history after Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Labour politician to have held the office, and the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories. Blair founded the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in 2016, and currently serves as its Executive Chairman.
1953Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager[†]
Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player, manager and television pundit.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]