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HANOI, Vietnam, July 16 -- Ten thousand French and Vietnamese troops, with planes, tanks and artillery, went into action early yesterday northeast and west of Hanoi. The drive is aimed to clear away infiltrating Vietminh units.
B Bonner defends bldrs; cites Sens Long and Bricker; repts 'windfall' on a Richmond, Va, project; repts it was common practice to give FHA staff members small gifts; repts being friendly with Powell; J L Maged repts 77th Rd Realty and Alley Pk Housing Corps got $332,918 'windfall' on NYC Oakland Gardens project
House com vote to deny all $35 million asked by Adm for '54 program; allows $2 million for surveys; blow to Eisenhower health program seen
police test 2 suspects in 1st day's operation of Drunkometer on city-wide basis; both found intoxicated; tests described
Knowland fails twice to force vote on Cole-Hickenlooper bill; scores Sen Morse demand for unlimited debate; Morse says bill would create atomic monopolies
1954Angela Merkel, German chemist and politician, Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.[†]
Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office, as well as the only former East German, and the first born after World War II. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018.
1954Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (died 2015)[†]
Edward Nipake Natapei Tuta Fanua`araki was a Vanuatuan politician. He was the prime minister of Vanuatu on two occasions, and was previously the minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 1991, the acting president of Vanuatu from 2 March 1999 to 24 March 1999 and the deputy prime minister. He was the president of the Vanua'aku Pati, a socialist, Anglophone political party.
1954J. Michael Straczynski, American author, screenwriter, and producer[†]
Joseph Michael Straczynski, known as J. Michael Straczynski is an American filmmaker and comic book writer. He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Studio JMS and is known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004) and Sense8 (2015–2018). He is the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison.
1954First Indochina War: Viet Minh troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M. 42' in the Battle of Chu Dreh Pass in the Central Highlands. It is the last battle of the war.[†]
The First Indochina War was fought in Indochina between France and the Việt Minh, and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 1 August 1954. The Việt Minh was led by Võ Nguyên Giáp and Hồ Chí Minh. The conflict mainly happened in Vietnam.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]