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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 18--Britain called today for internationalization, under the United Nations, of controversial areas in the Middle East as a "shield" against possible war.
The threat of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary to execcute strikers has caused one of the top theoreticians in the American Communist labor movement to break with Moscow.
ALBANY, Jan. 18--Governor Harriman told a conference of 200 mayors and police officials today that he would ask the Legislature for more stringent penalties for traffic violations.
Former Senator Herbert H. Lehman declared last night that Democratic Congressional leaders were largely responsible for the defeat of Adlai E. Stevenson last November.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 18--A United Nations mission has found Hungary's economy in a precarious condition.
1957Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Ottis Jerome Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a running back for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, setting the school record for rushing yards, and was selected eighth overall in the 1979 NFL draft by the Cardinals.
1957Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director[†]
Roger Ashton-Griffiths is an English character actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his role as Mace Tyrell in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
1957Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary of State of Puerto Rico[†]
Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, he co-chaired her successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until December 31, 2008. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012, the first Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as secretary of state on January 2, 2009, by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, fulfilling the role of lieutenant governor in the islands. He was appointed by Governor Pedro Pierluisi as a member of the Civil Rights Commission on February 8, 2024, a nomination pending Senate confirmation.
1957József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)[†]
József Dudás, was a Hungarian politician and resistance fighter.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]