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Misty Morn, flying the yellow and purple silks of Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps' Wheatley Stable, won the $85,550 Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica yesterday. It seems likely that she also won the 1955 championship among the 3-year-old fillies.
Faure wins confidence vote, 285-247, by virtue of Communist backing; decides not to resign despite lack of backing from non-Communist majority; elections seen deferred since Council of Repub must act again; stands of parties for or against pr system, early elections discussed
illus of his 1st Ford Motor Co stock certificate
comment on steady growth of pub gas; effect of '55 legis permitting Fed loans for munic bldg of gas distribution systems revd; Washington local elections authorizing bond issues for munic bldg or purchase of privately owned gas systems noted; similarity to pub power development seen
1955Robert Aaron, Canadian jazz musician[†]
Robert Aaron is a Canadian jazz musician. According to John Leland of the New York Times "Mr. Aaron played flute, saxophone, clarinet and piano, then taught himself guitar, trumpet, bassoon, French horn and other instruments." He performed for rapper Wyclef Jean's band from 1998 to 2008. Robin Caulden of Press-Republican said "He's played with everybody — Afrika Bambataa, B52s, Blondie, Chic, David Bowie, Heavy D, James Chance and The Contortions, RZA, Stetsasonic, William Vivanco and Wu-Tang Clan."
1955Bill Britton, American golfer[†]
William Timothy Britton is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour for fifteen years during the 1980s and 1990s.
1955Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host[†]
Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
1955Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (born 1897)[†]
Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described DeVoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull."
1955Moshe Pesach, Greek rabbi (born 1869)[†]
Moshe Pesach was a Greek rabbi who was the rabbi of Volos from 1892 until his death, and chief rabbi of Greece from 1946. Through his efforts, and with the assistance of the Greek authorities, the majority of the city's Jewish community was saved during the Holocaust.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]