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Western Big-3 Bermuda conf communique reaffirms desire for EDC; says link to NATO will assure durable cooperation of US and Brit troops
US Sup Ct, 6-3, rules Taft-Hartley Law does not bar co from discharging workers for disloyalty to employer, IBEW-TV station WBTV case
Sup Ct to rule on NYS law barring natl banks from soliciting or receiving savings deposits, Franklin Natl Bank (LI) case
NY Fed Reserve Bank, wk; 5% sales drop below same wk, '52, linked to newspaper strike
1953Kim Basinger, American actress[â ]
Kimila Ann Basinger is an American actress. She has garnered acclaim for her work in film, for which she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Initially a TV starlet, she shot to fame as a Bond girl in 1983 and enjoyed a long heyday over the next two decades. In 2011 Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her third on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film".
1953Norman Finkelstein, American author, academic, and activist[â ]
Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the IsraeliâPalestinian conflict.
1953Roy Firestone, American sportscaster and journalist[â ]
Roy Firestone is an American sports commentator and journalist. Firestone is a graduate of Miami Beach High School and the University of Miami.
1953Sam Kinison, American comedian (died 1992)[â ]
Samuel Burl Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. A former Pentecostal preacher, he performed stand-up routines that were characterized by intense sudden tirades, punctuated with his distinctive scream. Initially performing for free, Kinison became a regular fixture at The Comedy Store, where he met and eventually befriended such comics as Robin Williams and Jim Carrey.
1953WÅadysÅaw Kozakiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach[â ]
WÅadysÅaw Kozakiewicz is a Lithuanian-born retired Polish athlete who specialised in the pole vault. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the bras d'honneur gesture which he showed to the hostile Soviet crowd. In Poland, where the gesture was viewed as a symbol of resistance against Soviet dominance, it became known as "Kozakiewicz's gesture". In addition, he won several medals at continental level, won two Summer Universiades and broke the pole vault world record three times, twice outdoors and once indoors. He is also a ten-time Polish champion.
1953Steve Yates, English footballer[â ]
Steve Yates is an English former professional footballer who played as a left back. He made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League mainly for Southend United.
1953U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.[â ]
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942â1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[â ]