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Premier Kishi (Japan) addresses session
LONDON, June 20--Substantial reductions in the armed forces of the Soviet Union and the United States below the level of 2,500,000 were proposed today by Harold E. Stassen.
House com votes $133 million; suggests value of some service cuts, that 2d class pubs and bulk mailings should be zoned
judicial opinion, Washington, sees blow to Bricker amendment in Appeals Ct ruling that Sen reservation on '50 treaty with Canada on Niagara River development was expression of Sen desire and not part of treaty; reservation had preempted for Cong right to say how US share of waters should be used
WASHINGTON, June 20--The Government asked the Supreme Court today to take up the Girard case.
1957Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator[†]
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987.
1957Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal[†]
Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church, and has been the Pro-Prefect for the Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches of the Dicastery for Evangelization since December 8, 2019. He previously served as the 32nd Archbishop of Manila from 2011 to 2020. Tagle is the current Cardinal-Bishop of Albano and also serves as the President of the Catholic Biblical Federation, Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, President of Interdicasterial Commission for Consecrated Religious, and as a member of various departments and dicasteries in the Roman Curia. He is often referred to by his nickname, Chito.
1957Claude Farrère, French captain and author (born 1876)[†]
Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone, was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki.
1957Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)[†]
Johannes Stark was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields". This phenomenon is known as the Stark effect.
1957Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.[†]
Ellen Louks Fairclough was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Cabinet.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]