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Vishinsky warns that pol conf will not meet if Assembly delays debate on Korea question; UN com, 48-6, delays Assembly debate; 6 abstain; com, 49-7, rules Korean item may later be advanced by majority, not 2/3, vote; US opposed; 4 abstain
Yankees win 1st game, 9-5
US to supply up to $385 million more aid before Dec '54; no legis needed
Prof Piccard and son reach 10,330-ft depth in bathyscaphe, Tyrrhenian Sea; rept blackness impenetrable; illus; map
Eisenhower in ref to Durkin resignation says he never knowingly broke pledge with any assoc, news conf
1953Pete Falcone, American baseball player[†]
Peter Frank Falcone is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.
1953Viljar Loor, Estonian volleyball player (died 2011)[†]
Viljar Loor was among the most accomplished Estonian volleyball players. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Loor won the gold medal with the Soviet Union men's national volleyball team. He also won gold medals with the Soviet team at the 1978 FIVB World Championship in Italy and the 1982 FIVB World Championship in Argentina. He was a middle blocker.
1953Miguel Lopez, Salvadorian-American soccer player[†]
Miguel Angel López was a soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League. Born in El Salvador, he played for the U.S. national team.
1953Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner and coach (died 2011)[†]
Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history. She won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. She was also a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships.
1953Klaus Wowereit, German civil servant and politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin[†]
Klaus Wowereit is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections; after the 2011 elections the SPD's coalition partner changed from the Left to the Christian Democratic Union. He was also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany (Kanzlerkandidatur), but that never materialized.
1953John Marin, American painter (born 1870)[†]
John Marin was an early American modernist visual artist. He is known for his abstract landscape paintings and watercolors.
1953Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.[†]
Andhra State, created in 1953, was the official name of the State of Andhra Pradesh until 1956. The state was formed from Telugu-speaking districts of the erstwhile Madras State, which form two distinct cultural regions – Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra.
1953A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.[†]
The Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea is a treaty between South Korea and the United States signed on October 1, 1953, two months after the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement which brought a halt to the fighting in the Korean War. The agreement commits the two countries to provide mutual aid if either faces external armed attack and allows the United States to station military forces in South Korea in consultation with the South Korean government.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]