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LONDON, April 6--Gen. Ivan A. Serov has been dropped from the official Soviet party that will accompany Nikolai A. Bulganin and Nikita S. Khrushchev on their visit to Britain.
Com for White House Educ Conf final rept urges substantial rise in teacher pay; suggests doubling in near future
The Board of Estimate has requested Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa to negotiate a short-term lease with the Port of New York Authority for a commercial helicopter base at the foot of West Thirtieth Street.
Kefauver accuses Stevenson of 'mudslinging and character assassination,' s, NJ, holds Stevenson is desparate and new tactics will harm party; opens 5-day stump of NJ; campaigns in northern counties, Newark and Passaic; unopposed in coming primary; scores Meyner and party leaders for running their slate uncommitted; illus with Kefauver clubs pres Rafferty
Stevenson attacks Kefauver in Fla campaign opening, s, Jacksonville; goes on hand-shaking tour; comments on value of device
1956Annika Billström, Swedish businesswoman and politician, 16th Mayor of Stockholm[†]
Annika Billström is a Swedish social democratic politician. She was the first female mayor of Stockholm, serving between 2004 and 2006.
1956Christopher Darden, American lawyer and author[†]
Christopher Allen Darden is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer. He worked for 15 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he gained national attention as a co-prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
1956Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete[†]
Dr. Georg Werthner is an Austrian decathlete. He is notable for being the first athlete to finish four Olympic decathlons. In the 1988 Summer Olympics, Daley Thompson crossed the finish-line a little more than 18 seconds after him to become the second athlete to do this.
1956Fred Appleby, English runner (born 1879)[†]
Frederick Appleby was a British long-distance runner. In 1902, Appleby set a world record for 15 miles and twice defeated the leading distance runner of the time, Alfred Shrubb. Appleby competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a marathoner but failed to finish.
1956Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.[†]
Francoist Spain, also known as the Francoist dictatorship, or Nationalist Spain was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. During Franco's rule, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State. The informal term "Fascist Spain" is also used, especially before and during World War II.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]