conditions, NJ; Delaware Valley residents anxious as river hits Camden, Trenton; scores homeless in Warren, Burlington Counties; 2,000 evacuated, Bergen, Morris, Passaic Counties; some returning; light flooding reptd, Fair Lawn, E and W Paterson, Clifton, Totawa, Little Falls, Mountain View; Paterson sts, plants flooded; reservoirs overflow; rds flooded, traffic congested; ARC sets up relief centers, Wayne Twp; Rockaway, Whippany, Ramapo, Wanaque, Pequannock Rivers recede

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Notable Births

1955Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television host (died 2012)^[†]

Jean-Pierre Hautier was a Belgian television presenter and broadcaster for RTBF.

1955Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player^[†]

Vanessa Briscoe Hay is an American singer for the Athens, Georgia bands Pylon, Supercluster and Pylon Reenactment Society.

1955Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host^[†]

Timmy Mallett is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses and shirts, and a giant pink foam mallet, as well as his "utterly brilliant!" and "blaaah!" catchphrases.

1955Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator^[†]

Stuart "Stu" Mead is an American artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

1955David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter^[†]

David Neil Twohy is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for working on science fiction-action films, most notably Vin Diesel's The Chronicles of Riddick series.

1955Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice^[†]

Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk is a Dutch politician and businesswoman formerly affiliated with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and later Proud of the Netherlands (TON), which she founded in 2007. Since 2022, she has been a municipal councillor of The Hague, elected on the list led by Richard de Mos.

1955Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer^[†]

Denis Leslie Watson is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe.

1955Mark Welland, English physicist and academic^[†]

Sir Mark Edward Welland, is a British physicist who is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1986 and started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunnelling microscopes. He served as the Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and from 2016 to 2023.

Historical Context for October 18, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people^[†]