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WASHINGTON, March 26-- The Soviet Union proposed today to settle its naval lend-lease account with the United States by buying thirty-one ships and sinking seventy-nine said to be unseaworthy.
Sup Ct, 7-2, upholds contempt conviction under '54 Immunity Act; por
NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 26-- Island-wide disturbances expected by the authorities in the wake of yesterday's twenty-four-hour curfew did not materialize today.
Mayor Wagner orders study of NYC transit needs to be coordinated with Met Rapid Transit Comm studies
Tiflis U Communist party chief Dzhorbenadze ousted for failing to suppress 'elements of nationalism' among students; all univ members scored for indoctrination failures; Zarya Vostoka reveals student absenteeism and other breaches of discipline; Azerbaijan exparty chief Bagirov denounced for self-glorification at recent party meeting; was purged in '53 in Beria purge sequel; charged with having liquidated old Bolsheviks
1956Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician[â ]
Leung Kwok-hung, also known by his nickname "Long Hair" (é·æŻ), is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council, representing the New Territories East. A Trotskyist in his youth, he was a founding member of the Revolutionary Marxist League. He became a political icon with his long hair and Che Guevara T-shirt in the protests before he was elected to the Legislative Council in 2004. In 2006, he co-founded a social democratic party, the League of Social Democrats (LSD) of which he was the chairman from 2012 to 2016.
1956Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross country skier[â ]
Lars Thomas Wassberg is a Swedish former cross-country skier. A fast skating style â push for every leg â is still called "Wassberg" after him in several countries. Wassberg's skiing idols when growing up were Sixten Jernberg and Oddvar BrĂ„. He has described his mental strength and physical fitness as his greatest abilities as a skier, with his main weakness being a lack of sprinting ability.
1956Ăvariste LĂ©vi-Provençal, French orientalist and historian (born 1894)[â ]
Ăvariste LĂ©vi-Provençal was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[â ]