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Reapptd by Mayor-elect Wagner; career
toll at 19 killed, 28 hurt
Eisenhowers arrive, Augusta; Pres to work during vacation; family Xmas celebration; illus
TWU asks conf with Wagner on certain items of plan; scores Authority for alleged delaying tactics
Shubert, Lee
1953Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic[†]
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.
1953Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia[†]
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016.
1953Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager[†]
Makis Katsavakis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.
1953Henning Schmitz, German drummer[†]
Kraftwerk is a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the first successful acts to popularize the genre. The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined the band in 1973 and Karl Bartos in 1975, expanding the band to a quartet.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]