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US to call meeting of 24 UN member states that sponsored resolution setting up fact-finding com
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Port Authority announces $32.1-million rehabilitation program, including new passenger terminal, improved runways and taxiway, increased parking area for autos, new rd system and control tower; sketch of new terminal; major work to be completed by '60; lines agree to 400% rise in fees
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1957Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2003)[†]
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish politician and lawyer. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, she served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her death. She was also a Member of the Riksdag for Södermanland County until her assassination.
1957Jean Rabe, American journalist and author[†]
Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery. After a career as a newspaper reporter, she was employed by TSR, Inc. for several years as head of the Role Playing Game Association and editor of the Polyhedron magazine. Rabe began a career as a novelist for TSR and Wizards of the Coast, and over the last 30 years has produced over three dozen books and scores of short stories, at first in the genres of game-related fantasy and science fiction and later as an author of mystery novels.
1957Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader[†]
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and a prominent anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal. Widely known by his initial nom de guerre Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, he has subsequently employed several other pseudonyms: he called himself Delegate Zero during the Other Campaign (2006–2007), Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano from May 2014 to October 2023, which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade Jose Luis Solis Lopez, his nom de guerre being Galeano, aka "Teacher Galeano." and since October 2023, Capitán Insurgente Marcos. Marcos bears the title and rank of Capitán, and before that Subcomandante,, as opposed to Comandante, because he is under the command of the indigenous commanders who constitute the EZLN's Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee's General Command.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]