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French Cabinet approves draft resolution asking French-Ger talks resume
Taruc sentenced to 12 yrs for rebellion, fined $10,000; guilty plea held result of bargain with prosecution
Watkins says hearings will start with charge that McCarthy showed contempt for Sen; calls com meeting; McCarthy not invited
revs Brussels conf
Vargas suicide seen spurring, not easing, pol situation that caused it; speculation on anti-US tone of suicide note; events since suicide strengthen impression of working alliance between Communists and Labor party
1954Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus[†]
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-serving European leader.
1954Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT[†]
Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and lawyer, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. A Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha, Prasad has served as Union Minister multiple times: As Minister of State, he served in the ministries of Coal (2001–2003), Law and Justice (2002–2003), and Information and Broadcasting (2003–2004) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership; as Cabinet Minister, he held the Law and Justice, Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology (2014–2021) portfolios under Narendra Modi's premiership.
1954David Paymer, American actor and director[†]
David Emmanuel Paymer is an American actor and television director. He is known for his character actor roles on stage and screen. He has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
1954Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (born 1880)[†]
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member of the Benedictines who served as the Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death. He took the religious name of Ildefonso as a Benedictine monk and served as an abbot prior to his elevation to the cardinalate.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]