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Budget Dir Beame proposes pay rise of $200 in '55-56 and $100 in '56-57; puts cost at $3.7 million through June '56; plans rises for officers; schedule; tentatively sets Comr pay at $15,100 by July '56; plan scored by UFA pres Barry and Cavanagh; UFA to offer own plan; may join with PBA to get better offer
US aircraft carrier Kearsarge and 4 destroyers arrive
Eisenhower to back Benson fight against restoration of rigid supports; Benson holds prices have been stable in recent mos, int
Dulles holds Chinese Communists continue aggressive designs, news conf; sees superior resistance, strategic mobile striking forces answer to threat
1955Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach[†]
Svetlana Lvovna Alekseeva is a Russian figure skating coach and former ice dancer.
1955Rimantas Astrauskas, Lithuanian physicist[†]
Rimantas Astrauskas is a physicist, ecologist, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
1955Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Bruno Villela Barreto Borges is a Brazilian film director.
1955Linda Lepomme, Belgian actress and singer[†]
Linda Lepomme is a Belgian actress and singer who represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in which she sang "Laat me nu gaan". She earned seven points finishing in 19th (last) place overall.
1955Bob Ley, American sports anchor and reporter[†]
Robert A. Ley is an American sports anchor and reporter, best known for his work at ESPN. A multiple Emmy Award-winner, he was the longest-tenured on-air employee of the network, having joined ESPN just three days after the network's 1979 launch and retiring from the network effective at the end of June 2019.
1955Andy Scott, Canadian politician (died 2013)[†]
Robert Andrew Keith Scott was a Liberal Member of Parliament who represented the electoral district of Fredericton from 1993 to 2008. He was a member the Cabinet of Canada, most recently serving as the eighteenth Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (2004–2006).
1955Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer[†]
Jiro Watanabe is a Japanese former boxer. Watanabe, who fought only in Japan and South Korea, was one of the first World super flyweight champions, as the division was relatively new when he was crowned.
1955Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)[†]
Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]