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Fed Judge Youngdahl orders State Dept grant him hearing, disclose data upon which decision to deny passport is based
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BLS factory workers' take-home pay, Sept 15-Oct 15, rose over 1% to set record; repts rise of over $5 a mo in past yr
City Council approves Code and measure inc some secs of Bldg Code; provisions; approval of Estimate Bd and Mayor required
3d group of officials linked with late L P Beria reptd executed or jailed, Georgian Repub; previous cases revd
1955Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author[†]
Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013) and its sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017), with co-author Skyler White.
1955Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer[†]
Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music.
1955Mary Landrieu, American politician[†]
Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American entrepreneur and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Landrieu served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 1988 to 1996, and in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1988.
1955The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.[†]
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The territory's dual name reflects that the islands have historically been known as either the Cocos Islands or the Keeling Islands.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]