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plenary teams meet 21 mins; apparently deadlocked on guarantees that Rhee will not upset truce; Communists reptdly seek pledge that UN forces will curb SKs after truce is signed; NK radio asks recapture of freed POWs
Mossadegh becomes Iran's most powerful Premier, able to rule by decree, as Majlis virtually goes out of existence after 27 Deputies resign
waiters strike; leading restaurants closed; dispute revd
7 killed, 130 hurt, Paris; police clash with Communists demonstrating against traditional mil parade; illus; N Africans participate
Gruenther warns against weakening NATO through cuts. House Appropriations Com; fears loss of confidence in US; defends Eur effort; Eisenhower seeks to forestall cuts; has Gruenther and Bridges to breakfast; to see House and Sen appropriations groups; Bridges says Cong temper is to cut funds; T Blank (W Ger) says conditioned EDC aid will spur EDC ratification
1953Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti[†]
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état. As a priest, he taught liberation theology and, as president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole culture, including Vodou religion, in Haiti.
1953Sultanah Haminah, Malaysian royal consort[†]
Che Puan Besar Hajah Haminah binti Haji Hamidun, formerly known as Sultanah Haminah is the former Sultanah of Kedah and the widow of Sultan Abdul Halim Mua'dzam Shah. Born as a commoner, she married Sultan Abdul Halim on 21 November 2003 after death of his first wife. She served as the 14th Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia from 2011 to 2016, during her husband's second term as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Malaysian federal head of state. After her husband's death in September 2017, his successor and her brother-in-law Sultan Sallehuddin, bestowed upon her the title Che Puan Besar of Kedah, roughly equivalent to the queen dowager.
1953Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician[†]
Mohamad Shahrum bin Osman was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Lipis constituency in Pahang from 2004 to 2013. He sat in Parliament as a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party in the Barisan Nasional government and also served as the Chairman of the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN).
1953Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter[†]
Alicia Bridges is an American singer and songwriter who co-wrote and performed her international hit "I Love the Nightlife " in 1978.
1953Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (born 1882)[†]
Panikkervettil Thomas Panicker Geevarghese, known formally as Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, was a prominent Indian bishop and the first metropolitan archbishop and the founder of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was a key figure in the Malankara Reunion Movement, which sought to reunite the Malankara Church with the Catholic Church, culminating in his joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1930 along with a small group of followers.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]