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US repts USSR has fired 4-6 ICBMs since late spring from launching sites in NW Russia
will not seek nomination, lr to Casey; Casey comments
NYCTA reinstates them; bars 13 mos back pay; illus
Russell sees Nixon pressing Brownell to apply law wherever and whenever NAACP may demand; rebukes Thurmond
Govt lifts ban on foreigners travel to Riga, Irkutsk, 3 Ukraine cities and some sees near Moscow, closes 120,000 sq mi in Central Asia and other areas; US reaction
1957Colm O'Rourke, Irish footballer and sportscaster[†]
Colm O'Rourke is a Gaelic football manager, former player, retired secondary school principal, sports broadcaster and columnist. His league and championship career at senior level with the Meath county team spanned twenty years from 1975 to 1995.
1957Gina Schock, American drummer[†]
Regina Ann Schock is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Go-Go's.
1957Glenn Tilbrook, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Glenn Martin Tilbrook is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the English new wave band Squeeze, a band formed in the mid-1970s who broke through in the new wave era at the decade's end. He generally writes the music for Squeeze's songs, while his writing partner, Chris Difford, writes the lyrics. In addition to his songwriting skills, Tilbrook is respected both as a singer and an accomplished guitarist.
1957The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.[†]
Malaya, officially the Federation of Malaya, was a country in Southeast Asia from 1948 to 1963. It succeeded the Malayan Union and, before that, British Malaya. It comprised eleven states – nine Malay states and two of the Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca. It was established on 1 February 1948.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]