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NYC Bar Assn, studying Chief Justice Byrnes qualifications for re-election, asks Appellate Div probe charges of nepotism and absenteeism in Ct; Byrnes admits personal relationship to 3 staff members, denies absenteeism; widespread absenteeism reptd in office of Records Comr O'Rourke and his deputy R J Crews
Ss, St Paul and Minneapolis, on death of Abp Murray, on Adm farm and peace programs
Stevenson heartened by pub, scientific, pol response to proposal; gets biggest fan mail of campaign; backed by Dr H deW Smyth, 5 Argonne Lab physicists, Govs Harriman, Leader, Clement, Sens Gore, Lehman, Sparkman, Long, Mansfield, Humphrey, Kefauver
Dulles reaffirms US will aid 'within Const means' any victim of aggression, press conf; cites Eisenhower Apr pledge
voting starts; Bradley, Long confident; Judge Leibowitz, at Dist Atty Silver request, keeps Kings County rackets grand jury in session to handle any cases of interference; Hall silent on Curran attack; Teamsters pres Beck says election cannot alter basic reasons why dockers and teamsters must cooperate
1956Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Fran Cosmo is an American musician best known as a former lead singer of the rock bands Boston and Orion the Hunter.
1956Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut[†]
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.
1956Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina[†]
Patrick Lloyd McCrory is an American politician and businessman who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 53rd mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009. To date, he is North Carolina's most recent Republican governor.
1956Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player and executive[†]
Kenneth Arlington Morrow is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and a member of the 1980 USA Olympic Miracle on Ice hockey team. He is currently serving as the New York Islanders' director of pro scouting. A member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, he played 550 regular season games in the National Hockey League between 1980 and 1989.
1956Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author[†]
Stephen R. Palumbi is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University at Hopkins Marine Station. He also holds a Senior Fellowship at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
1956Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (born 1920)[†]
Imelda Anne Crawford was a British film actress.
1956The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.[†]
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuclear power generation from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]