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Vice Pres Nixon urges Repr Hillelson re-election, s, Nevada, Mo
gets 5-day jail term for contempt of Cong in asking probe of charge he is scientific fraud
RWDSU forcibly takes over Local 923 offices; illus; internatl sectreas Kyne named admr; Rosenzweig barred from entering offices; plans to seek injunction; admrs peaceably take over Locals 377, 394, 563; Greenberg on probe disclosures; Teamsters pres Beck says union's chief economist Kaplan gathers data on alleged abuses in Local 805
Truman scores 83d Cong as 'do-wrong, giveaway' Cong, lr to Mitchell
detective J J P McShane demoted, transferred after pub of photo showing him, while off duty, shielding boxer Rocky Marciano from rain; photo illus; Deputy Com Dougherty fears interpretation that Dept gave Marciano bodyguard; Deputy Inspector Metz made capt
1954Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (died 1996)[†]
Murtaza Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and leader of al-Zulfiqar, a Pakistani left-wing militant organization. The son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. Murtaza founded al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. In 1981, he claimed responsibility for the murder of conservative politician Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, and the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines airplane from Karachi, during which a hostage was killed. In exile in Afghanistan, Murtaza was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal.
1954Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut[†]
Takao Doi is a Japanese astronaut, engineer and veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
1954Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (died 2007)[†]
Dennis Wayne Johnson, nicknamed "DJ", was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, and Boston Celtics. He was a coach of the Los Angeles Clippers and an alumnus of Dominguez High School, Los Angeles Harbor College and Pepperdine University.
1954Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author[†]
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
1954Tommy Tuberville, American football player, coach, and Senator[†]
Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American politician and retired college football coach who is the senior United States senator from Alabama, a seat he has held since 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. Before entering politics, Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University from 1999 to 2008. He was also the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012, and the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016.
1954Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.[†]
Juho Kusti Paasikivi was a Finnish politician who served as the seventh president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously served as senator, member of parliament, envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941), and Prime Minister of Finland. He also held several other positions of trust, and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]