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August 15, 1956

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4TH GANG ASSENTS TO EAST SIDE PACT; Police to Study Delinquency Policy Anew Tomorrow 4TH GANG ASSENTS TO EAST SIDE PACT

By Clayton Knowles

4th gang approves pact; Kennedy calls meeting of police capts and neighborhood workers in all pcts to discuss techniques for handling juvenile problems; Dept spokesman holds police cannot actively participate in programs which 'deal with' or 'compromise' with crime and violence; later concedes police have place in rehabilitation programs

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Notable Births

Lorraine Desmarais

1956Lorraine Desmarais, Canadian pianist and composer[†]

Lorraine Desmarais C.M. is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

1956Freedom Neruda, Ivorian journalist[†]

Freedom Neruda is an Ivorian journalist. In 1996, he was imprisoned for seditious libel after writing a satirical article about Ivorian President Henri Konan Bédié. The following year, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and in 2000, he was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.

Robert Syms

1956Robert Syms, English businessman and politician[†]

Sir Robert Andrew Raymond Syms is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1997 to 2024. He received a knighthood in 2017.

Historical Context for August 15, 1956

In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]