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S Lieberman, dealer, and R E Deppe, Sabena Belgian Air Lines pilot, held on charges of smuggling $233,230 in diamonds, NYC; another pilot also linked
conf; Egypt repts pact near; Revolution Command Council conf with S Hafez; terms agreed on reptdly include evacuation of Brit troops in 18 mos; length of Brit technicians stay still an issue
J T Cahill repts Comm rejects affidavits as incomplete, returns them for reprocessing; Bleakley also submitted affidavits covering 16,050 shares of stock; Nassau County Dist Atty Gulotta plans to probe Roosevelt Raceway; cites shakedown charges; McKeown scores inquiry; links Gulotta to Sprague
1953Mona Baker, Egyptian-British professor[†]
Mona Baker is a professor of translation studies and Director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester in England.
1953Drake Hogestyn, American actor (died 2024)[†]
Donald Drake Hogestyn was an American actor best known for his long-running role as John Black on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.
1953Janis F. Kearney, American author, lecturer and publisher[†]
Janis Faye Kearney is an American author, lecturer, and publisher. She served as a personal diarist to President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 2001.
1953Ernst Reuter, German politician (born 1889)[†]
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. He played a significant role in unifying the divided sectors of Berlin and publicly and politically took a stand against the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]