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anti-Communist POWs riot; clash with neutral Indian troops, capture Indian maj as hostage; protest release of 1 POW to Communists; Gen Thorat personally enters compound, restores order without using force
newly-chartered AFL union, also called Internatl Longshoremen's Assn, starts organizing drive; invades Anastasia piers, Bklyn, with SIU, Teamsters and Local 1199-1 members; Connolly asks more police; Anastasia charges men had weapons and tried to intimidate ILA members; Monaghan conf with NY and NJ officials; AFL directs Beck to ask Gov Dewey aid in preventing Shipping Assn from signing pact with ILA; high pub official reptd to have asked Assn not to sign
Halley charges Wagner lied in saying Halley approached Dem leaders for Dem nomination, s to ADA; Wagner s to ADA; says DeSapio told him Halley asked him to run on a ticket with him; Halley asks ADA support on liberalism and good govt grounds; Riegelman declines inv to s to ADA; Wagner scores Riegelman use of certain govt reorgn data; Impellitteri candidacy seen
Treas to cut interest rates on new savings notes issue to supplant Series B notes offered May 11; 1st such move since new Adm took office; Adm repr denies hard money policy change; move linked to rising demand and drop in short-term borrowing cost in pub market
Sec Schumann says West will seek to guarantee Eur borders against modification by force if USSR ends opposition to EDC, s, UN Assembly; holds EDC defensive
1953Dolores Keane, Irish singer and actress[†]
Dolores Keane is an Irish folk singer. She was a founding member of the group De Dannan following which she pursued a solo recording and touring career.
1953Douglas A. Melton, American biologist and academic[†]
Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. Melton is a co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was an original co-chairman of the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Melton founded of several biotech companies including Gilead Sciences, Ontogeny, iPierian, and Semma Therapeutics. Melton is a member of the National Academy of the Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a founding member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
1953Paul Stephenson, English police officer[†]
Sir Paul Robert Stephenson is a British retired police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2009 to 2011.
1953Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and educator (born 1895)[†]
Xu Beihong, also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.
1953Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends.[†]
Rationing was introduced temporarily by the British government several times during the 20th century, during and immediately after a war.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]