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Wagner urges more middle-income housing to reverse population shift to suburbs, annual message to Council
NYS Sen backs eliminating law provision that persons may carry switchblade knives if needed in occupation
Sen Neuberger urges Pres not to banish them; starts fund to buy fence to protect green; Sen Barkley comments; Pres, squirrel, Neuberger with squirrel illus
Keating convicted of criminal contempt; gets 5-day sentence
Repubs abandon linking valuation formula to rentals; Carlino scores Dems and Abrams for stand; Assemblyman Bannigan, others defend Abrams
1955Moses Malone, American basketball player (died 2015)[†]
Moses Eugene Malone Sr. was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995. A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection. Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, Malone is also seen as one of the most underrated players in NBA history.
1955Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (born 1875)[†]
Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the First Brazilian Republic and the almost uninterrupted duration of a state of emergency. During his long political career, from 1905 until his death, he was the main leader of the Republican Party of Minas Gerais (PRM) from 1918–1922 until the party's closure in 1937, and founder and leader of the Republican Party (PR).
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]