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Mfr of metallic tape 1/16 as thick as human hair for use as core of electronic brain machine memory units described; Armco Steel, Arnold Engineering, other mfrs noted; alloy of molybdenum, iron and nickel believed widest used; tape illus
This week the U.N. Security Council is to take up again its hottest current question--Syria's complaint against Israel over the Galilee Sea incident.
Gator: Vanderbilt 25--Auburn 13
Reginald George Mace, realty broker of Queens, will be installed as president of the Real Estate Square Club of New, York, No. 1075, Thursday evening at the Roosevelt Hotel. The other officers of the group, which is affiliated with the National League of Masonic Clubs, will also be sworn in at the annual installation ceremony.
Great Sebastians, The, by H Lindsay, R Crouse: M Zolotow on A Lunt, L Fontanne mind-reading act
1956Sergei Avdeyev, Russian engineer and astronaut[†]
Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev is a former Russian engineer and cosmonaut.
1956Royce Ayliffe, Australian rugby league player[†]
David Royce Ayliffe is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative, he played for and captained the Eastern Suburbs club. Ayliffe also played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs club. During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Brass played in the forwards, helping Eastern Suburbs to victory in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney. While attending Wollongong Keira High School, Ayliffe played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1972. He also gained selection for the Australian Kangaroos in 1981. Since retirement he has served on the NRL Judiciary.
1956Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund[†]
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019. Lagarde had also served in the Government of France, most prominently as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from 2007 until 2011. She is the first woman to hold each of those posts.
1956Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (died 2011)[†]
Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.
1956Martin Plaza, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Martin Edward Murphy, commonly known by the pseudonym Martin Plaza, is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and visual artist who is a founding member and vocalist and guitarist of the new wave band Mental As Anything. He has also worked with other bands and is an accomplished artist. Plaza also has a solo music career and had a No. 2 hit in Australia with his 1986 cover of the song "Concrete and Clay".
1956Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.[†]
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million people as of 2024 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres, making it Africa's third-largest country by area and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of South Sudan in 2011; since then both titles have been held by Algeria. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]