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Corky, a boxer dog who is something of a neighborhood character in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, became a hero yesterday for the third time in his three years.
Cabinet crisis threatened by French refusal to join GB, US in Suez Canal users assn, by failure to back up pledge of strong stand against Egyptian nationalization of Canal
Eisenhower hails farmers, s; awards prizes; illus
Ethnarchy sec gen N Kranidiotis taken to detention camp as terrorist suspect; arrested Sept 5; Cypriotes throng Paphos Cathedral to mourn 3 hangings; strike continues; 4 gunmen try to raid police station; repulsed; Greek UN delegation protests hangings
SEC repts 'pitchmen' and confidence men being used to promote phone sales of speculative stocks, some from Canada; Armstrong comments at news conf after meeting, Washington, with SEC regional admrs; appeals to pub to help foil such schemes; W Moran details operations; cites examples
1956Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author[†]
Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer.
1956Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
Douglas Arthur Wimbish is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Depeche Mode, James Brown, Annie Lennox, Tarja Turunen, and Barrington Levy.
1956Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician[†]
Ibrahim Shehu Shema ; born 22 September 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was elected as a Governor of the north western State of Katsina during the 2007 general elections.
1956Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)[†]
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]