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January 11, 1954

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Historical Context for January 11, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]

Notable Births

Jaak Aaviksoo

1954Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence[†]

Jaak Aaviksoo is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).

Kailash Satyarthi

1954Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education.

Notable Deaths

Oscar Straus (composer)

1954Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (born 1870)[†]

Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.

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Headlines from January 11, 1954

Monmouth Security Woes Antedate McCarthy Visits; MONMOUTH'S WOES ANTEDATE INQUIRY Fort Monmouth: Army Signal Corps' 2,000-Acre Installation in Jersey

By Peter Kihss

P Kihss articles on Ft Monmouth security problems; holds problem involves entire US security program; repts that Army has suspended 19 current Ft Monmouth employes as security risks, chiefly for assn with relatives or others, sometimes long before Fed service; that none is accused of spying or disloyalty; that all deny Communist taint; that 13 others, suspended since Aug '53, were reinstated without charges; that many of them have not been cleared for their former work; that 15 others lost clearance without charges in last 2 yrs; that McCarthy turned up 7 employed at Ft Monmouth up to '47 who refuse to say whether they were Communists; that McCarthy introduced J Rosenberg link to alleged thefts of Signal Corps secrets; notes vagueness of Army charges leading to suspensions; examples; revs McCarthy subcom hearings and results; repts that investigations of Ft Monmouth employes date back to '46; notes unproved contention that probe stems from religious and racial bigotry; discusses Inslerman case; describes Ft and surroundings; notes frictions resulting from wartime influx of new residents, including Negroes and Jews; repts Jewish groups distressed because 42 of 47 employes now or previously suspended or refused clearance are Jews; post comdr Maj Gen Lawton cites good record of racial relations at Ft Monmouth; repts morale good; Ft, Lawton illus

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