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US awaits Franco's approval
House com in Chattanooga
Reston on problems facing Pres
Big 4 reptdly reach accord on signaling code designed to end incidents over Ger; West concerned over complexity; question of permitted altitude over corridors to Berlin reptd still unsettled
1953Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver and sportscaster[ā ]
Arie Luijendijk, nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman," is a Dutch former auto racing driver, and winner of the 1990 and 1997 Indianapolis 500 races. He was inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2014.
1953Reinhard Marx, German cardinal[ā ]
Reinhard Marx is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising since 2008. Pope Benedict XVI made him a cardinal in 2010. He is a former member of the Council of Cardinals established by Pope Francis, serving from 2013 to 2023 and is a former president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union. Marx is the Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
1953Necmettin Sadak, Turkish publisher and politician, 10th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)[ā ]
Sadık Necmettin Sadak was a Turkish politician, former minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
1953Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.[ā ]
No Kum-sok was a North Koreanāborn American engineer and aviator who served as a senior lieutenant in the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force during the Korean War. Under colonial rule, No was required to adopt a Japanese name, Okamura Kiyoshi. Approximately two months after the end of hostilities, he defected to South Korea in a MiG-15 aircraft, and was subsequently granted political asylum in the United States. He then adopted the English name Kenneth H. Rowe.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[ā ]