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Baumgartner says release does not affect NYC or NYS since no cleared vaccine is on hand; says city can start inoculations 72 hrs after delivery; NYS supply lacking because state authorities asked delivery delay pending Fed study
Waterman, S R, Appeals Ct
US State Dept silent; Yugoslavia assures US and GB that visit will not affect ties with West
US releases all documents submitted to subcom from Feb 25 to May 9; they show that West sought tighter controls than USSR; Washington officials note USSR-proposed control agency would not take ind action but make recommendations to Security Council where USSR has veto
US Defense Dept repts USSR makes formation flights with intercontinental bombers (Type 37) comparable to B-52s; repts output of other craft being spurred; only prototype of Type 37 hitherto known; 10 seen in flight; Dept holds flights indicate tech advances and mass output; aide repts unusual release linked to expected Cong attack on defense program; says rept was cleared at 'highest level'; illus of Type 39, comparable to B-47
1955Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Slovenian electrical engineer and minister of health 2007–8[†]
Zofija Mazej Kukovič is a Slovenian electrical engineer who became a manager and a politician. She was the minister of health 2007–8 before she was a member of the European Parliament for the Slovenian Democratic Party.
1955Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player and coach[†]
José Dennis Martínez Ortiz, nicknamed "El Presidente", is a Nicaraguan former professional baseball pitcher. Martínez played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, and Atlanta Braves from 1976 to 1998. He threw a perfect game in 1991, and was a four-time MLB All-Star. He was the first Nicaraguan to play in the majors.
1955Big Van Vader, American wrestler and football player (died 2018)[†]
Leon Allen White, better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player. During his career, he performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Catch Wrestling Association (CWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and Pro Wrestling Noah during the 1990s and 2000s. He is widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler of all time.
1955Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]