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Indicted for conspiracy to defraud US to acquire war surplus ships
MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 8 -- The American Federation of Labor executive council decided today to turn the six-month strike of 1,500 hat workers in South Norwalk, Conn., into a national showdown battle in labor's fight against "the runaway shop."
Comr Moses, after Gov Dewey conf, repts tentative pact reached to locate toll booths for NYS sec in Westchester instead of Bronx
1954Jo Duffy, American author[†]
Mary Jo Duffy is an American comic book editor and writer, known for her work for Marvel Comics in the 1980s and DC Comics and Image Comics in the 1990s.
1954Chris Gardner, American businessman and philanthropist[†]
Christopher Paul Gardner, Sr. is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stockbroker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. That book was made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith.
1954Kevin Warwick, English scientist[†]
Kevin Warwick is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done research concerning robotics.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]