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E A Johnston, as Pres Eisenhower's personal repr, to press for regional development to provide new homes and econ opportunities for refugees
Impellitteri proposes Estimate Bd make permanent cost-of-living bonuses granted since 51; discusses move in campaign s
only 10 of 1st 500 Chinese POWs at explanation sessions decide to return to communism; 500 NKs refuse to attend sessions; demonstration halted by 600 Indian troops; Thimayya conf with NNRC; bars newsmen from watching Indians remove NKs from compounds if such course is taken; explanation int described
French launch large-scale offensive, Thanhhoa Prov, 65 mi SE of Hanoi; illus; map
Lewis, T E: Bronx grand jury queries 4 officials of Local 32-E; Lynch refuses to waive immunity to testify
1953Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer[†]
Anthony Lawrence Carey is an American musician, composer, producer, and singer/songwriter. In his early career he was a keyboardist for Rainbow. After his departure in 1977, he began a solo career, releasing albums under his own name as well under the pseudonym Planet P Project, and producing for and performing with other artists.
1953Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
Paulo Roberto Falcão, usually known as simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time and one of the greatest midfielders in football history, and one of the best players in the world in his position at his peak in the 1980s.
1953K. S. Kugathasan, Sri Lankan politician[†]
Kathiravelu Shanmugam Kugathasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil social activist, politician and Member of Parliament. A member of the Tamil National Alliance, he has represented Trincomalee District since July 2024.
1953Brinsley Forde, British singer and actor[†]
Brinsley Forde MBE is a British singer and actor of Guyanese parentage who is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970–71).
1953Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.[†]
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island, Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets and cays. Situated at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. Culturally, Cuba is considered part of Latin America.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]