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Wagner orders '57 capital budget give priority to bldg projects, message to City Planning Comm
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Dulles to leave for 2d London conf; revises users assn plan; reptdly will offer $500 million in credits to W Eur to cover expense of rerouted oil shipments and announces plans to take out US mothball fleet; dislikes term 'boycott' but hopes major canal users will divert ships until Egypt accepts assn plan; reptdly will agree to UN appeal but would wait until assn has sent ship with own pilot to canal for showdown with Nasser; US aides S D Metzger and E Moline leave for London; 14 US oil cos draft plan to send 450,000 bbls of Western Hemisphere oil to W Eur daily and divert 300,000 bbls of Near East oil from US to W Eur
Pres takes photos with family at Gettysburg
Fine repts showdown due, Clay, as Negro children plan to return to school there despite Educ Bd ban; Guard still in town; Chandler confs with Supt Martin, Atty Gen Ferguson; NAACP enters case at Mrs Gordon's request; will sue to have children admitted; Williams pledges to keep order, protect children; Clark scores implication that troops are needed to keep order
1956Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyz politician, 4th President of Kyrgyzstan[†]
Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev is a Kyrgyzstani politician who served as the fourth president of Kyrgyzstan from 2011 to 2017. He previously served as the 11th prime minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2010 to 2011, and from 2007 to 2007 and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) from 1999 to 2011.
1956Thad Bosley, American baseball player and coach[†]
Thaddis Bosley Jr. is an American former professional baseball outfielder and coach.
1956Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)[†]
Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu, formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu, and also known as Dr Yunupingu, was a teacher and musician, and frontman of the Aboriginal rock group Yothu Yindi from 1986. He was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Yolŋu people, with a skin name of Gudjuk.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]