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his intention to stay in Pres race announced through Cong leaders, Gettysburg
Truman says announcement is 'not headline news to him,' news conf, Chicago
Repts on visit to USSR
Iraqi moves to cement ties with newly ind Arab states seen attempt to curb Egyptian bid for Arab leadership; visits by King Feisal, Premier Nuri as-Said, MP al Jamali cited
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., July 10--France proposed to the United Nations Disarmament Commission today a limited test of President Eisenhower's plan for aerial inspection and control of international armaments.
1956Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American author and academic[†]
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
1956Robin Renucci, French actor and director[†]
Robin Renucci is a French film and television actor and film director.
1956Sela Ward, American actress[†]
Sela Ann Ward is an American actress. Her breakthrough TV role was as Teddy Reed in the NBC drama series Sisters (1991–96), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She received her second Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for the leading role of Lily Manning in the ABC drama series Once and Again (1999–2002). Ward later had the recurring role of Stacy Warner in the Fox medical drama House, also starred as Jo Danville in the CBS police procedural CSI: NY (2010–13) and starred as Dana Mosier in the CBS police procedural series FBI (2018–19).
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]