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Comr Hoch outlines new $1-million care and research program; would expand facilities at 4 hosps and at aftercare and day-care clinics, recruit more psychiatric personnel, expand study of new drugs; other projects; Gov Harriman lauds plan
IUE ends strike; accepts co offer to bargain on time study dispute during natl negotiations; Local 601 rejects agreement, continues strike; Carey, Blasier comment on time study issue
Royal Comm on Soviet Espionage rept based on data revealed by Petrov defection pub
The eight-day dock strike against the Waterfront Commission was called off yesterday.
French-nationalist dispute over regency council makeup delays Sultan's withdrawal; French reptdly now propose 2 backers of Sultan and Glaoui to take place of Mokri and 3d member to be chosen by Ulemas; France and Spain reptdly agree that Sultan could stay in Tangier
1955Željka Antunović, Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence[†]
Željka Antunović is a Croatian former politician who served as acting president of the Social Democratic Party between April and June 2007, and as Minister of Defence from 2002 until 2003 in the second cabinet of Ivica Račan. She was the first and to date only female holder of the office.
1955Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (died 2019)[†]
Abdul Qadir Khan SI was an international cricketer who bowled leg spin for Pakistan. Abdul Qadir is widely regarded as a legendary leg spinner from the 1970s and 1980s and was a role model for up and coming leg spinners. His unique style of bowling consisted of a rhythmic cantering walk before the ball toss. Qadir was voted the best player in the Group B matches of the 1987 Cricket World Cup and won a car which he donated to Imran Khan for his Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre project. Later he was a commentator and Chief Selector of the Pakistan Cricket Board, from which he resigned in 2009 due to differences of opinion with leading Pakistan cricket administrators.
1955Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer[†]
Bruce Reitherman is an American filmmaker and former child actor. He voiced Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Mowgli in The Jungle Book.
1955Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing[†]
Renzo Rosso is an Italian entrepreneur and a businessman. He is the founder of Diesel and the president of OTB Group, the parent company of Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor & Rolf, Jil Sander. In 2022, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$3.6 billion.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]