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GB seen agreeing to Big-4 Foreign Mins conf after ratification is completed
urges renunciation of force in Far East
NYCTA approves 7 bids for 850,000 tons of coal to cost $6,987,650
Word of Life Hr: 50th anniv rally, Madison Sq Garden, NYC; Rev B Graham preaches to overflow audience; illus
US backs Swedish-Swiss plan to abolish NNSC; memo from UE Deputy Under Sec Murphy to Amb Bohemen and Min Bruggmann made pub; Communist obstructionist tactics noted; US consultations with 'com of 16' on plan noted
1955Tim Costello, Australian minister and politician[†]
Timothy Ewen Costello AO is an Australian Baptist minister who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia. Costello worked as a lawyer and served as mayor of St Kilda. He has authored a number of books on faith and life. A National Trust poll in 2014 elected him one of Australia's 100 national living treasures.
1955Joey Jones, Welsh footballer and manager[†]
Joseph Patrick Jones is a Welsh former footballer who played as a full-back.
1955An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is legalized.[†]
The Saimaa ringed seal is a subspecies and glacial relict of ringed seal. They are among the most endangered seals in the world, having a total population of only about 500 individuals. The only existing population of these seals is found in Lake Saimaa, Finland. They have lived in complete isolation from other ringed seal species for around 9,500 years and have diverged into a morphologically and ecologically different subspecies of ringed seal. The population is descended from ringed seals that were separated from the rest when the land rose after the last ice age. This seal, along with the Ladoga seal and the Baikal seal, is one of the few living freshwater seals.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]