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House com approves Lehman-Buckley bill; Scherer efforts to eliminate preference clause fail; Miller bill rejected; Repub caucus rejects Niagara Mohawk plan
High-jumps 7 ft 1/2 in; becomes 1st to top 7-ft mark
Sec Wilson does not discount USSR threat but sees hopeful signs in current policy, US Sen subcom
49th birthday
Reply to Surgeon Gen Scheele lr of resignation; text
1956Volker Beck, German hurdler and coach[†]
Volker Beck is a former East German athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
1956David Lidington, English historian, academic, and politician, Minister of State for Europe[†]
Sir David Roy Lidington is a former British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2018 to 2019 and was frequently described as being Theresa May's de facto Deputy Prime Minister.
1956David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian[†]
David Alan Grier is an American actor and comedian. Known for his roles on stage and screen, Grier gained popularity playing multiple roles in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1994) and Reverend Leon Lonnie Love on the Fox comedy series Martin (1993–1997). In 2004, Grier was ranked no. 94 on Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
1956Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (born 1880)[†]
Thorleif Brinck Lund was a Norwegian stage and film actor of the silent film era.
1956A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.[†]
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors. With American, United, and Eastern, it was one of the "Big Four" domestic airlines in the United States formed by the Spoils Conference of 1930.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]