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Christenberry statement on juvenile crime
Repub House leaders move to accept Sen bill; Scott, 3 others on Rules Com will conf with Martin on strategy; Keating indicates he would comply with procedure sought by Rayburn, others; proposes reprs for Sen-House conf on jurytrial amendment; says he discussed issue with Nixon; Celler hails Keating, other Repubs stand
indicted by Fed grand jury for evading payment of $20,168 in income taxes; details
Gen Nizameddin resigns as Army C/S; US officials see Leftist Army coup; Premier el Assali says Nizameddin asks pension; Col el Husseini, accused in alleged US plot against Govt, recalled from Rome post
1957Laura Innes, American actress and director[†]
Laura Innes is an American actress and television director. She played Kerry Weaver in the medical drama ER (1995–2009), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2001, she received her third Primetime Emmy Award nomination for directing the episode "Shibboleth" of the political drama The West Wing. She also appeared in the thriller drama The Event (2010–2011) and How to Get Away with Murder (2018–2020).
1957R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2015)[†]
Raosaheb Ramrao Patil, better known as R. R. Patil, was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was an MLA for Tasgaon vidhan sabha constituency from 1991 to 2015. He was an important leader of modern Maharashtra. He was a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. He became Home Minister of Maharashtra for the second time after the 2009 Maharashtra assembly election victory of the Congress-NCP alliance. He was also the former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
1957Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)[†]
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]