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Wagner repts forming Mayor's Com for Better Housing; invites over 100 notables to join; outlines program
1 killed in USN gunnery exhibition, Mediterranean Sea
reptdly seeks Socialist role in Cabinet
findings summarized as conf ends; some participants listed
backs Ger Trade Union Fed stand
1954David Michaels, American epidemiologist and politician[â ]
David Michaels is an American epidemiologist and professor in the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology at the Milken Institute School of Public Health of the George Washington University. He held high-level, senate-confirmed public health positions in the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, including a stint from 2009 to 2017 as the administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
1954Vojislav Å eÅ¡elj, Serbian lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia[â ]
Vojislav Šešelj is a Serbian politician. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). From 1998 to 2000, he was a deputy prime minister of Serbia.
1954In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.[â ]
The Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations. It took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 April to 21 July 1954. The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals and so is generally considered less relevant. On the other hand, the Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[â ]