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Governor Dewey sought last night a way to avoid creation of a new state agency to administer the waterfront controls proposed by the State Crime Commission to end racketeering and loss of this port's trade.
Sup Ct unanimously rules DC restaurants must serve Negroes, Thompson case
8 tornadoes strike parts of Mich and Ohio; 120 feared dead, hundreds hurt; Flint, Mich, repts 83 dead; illus; map
I Corps marks 1,000th day of role in war; Rhee s; Rhee and Maj Gen Clarke illus
ROME, Tuesday, June 9 -- With well over one half of the vote counted in the first general elections held in Italy since 1948, the four Center parties headed by Premier Alcide De Gasperi's Christian Democrats had accumulated an impressive lead over the extreme Left-Wing parties, and by a slight margin had polled an absolute majority of the votes cast.
1953Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer[†]
Ken Navarro is an American contemporary jazz guitarist from Lafayette, Indiana.
1953Ernest Graves Sr., American football player, coach, and general (born 1880)[†]
Ernest "Pot" Graves was an American football and baseball player, coach, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1906 and 1912. Graves retired from the Army with the rank of brigadier general.
1953The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.[†]
An extremely devastating and deadly tornado outbreak sequence impacted the Midwestern and Northeastern United States at the beginning of June 1953. It included two tornadoes that caused at least 90 deaths each—an F5 tornado occurring in Flint, Michigan, on June 8 and an F4 tornado in Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 9. These tornadoes are among the deadliest in United States history and were caused by the same storm system that moved eastward across the nation.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]