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Registration got off to a good start yesterday as 267,224 voters went to polling places in the city.
GB proposes forming free-trade area to link Canada to sterling bloc, Commonwealth finance mins conf; Diefenbaker plan to transfer 15% of trade from US to GB linked; Min Fleming outlines Canada's problems
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Sciences Acad repts volcanic blast on Mt Bezymianny, Kamchatka, Mar '56, dwarfed largest H-bomb blast; repts concussion recorded 625 mi away; other effects; map
officials rept outlays cut to keep spending at $19 billion, 6 mos; rept $600 million in contracts placed, July
1957Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee[†]
Brian Christopher Broad is an English cricket official, broadcaster, and former player. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup.
1957Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor[†]
Andrew Dice Clay is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offensive persona known as "The Diceman". In 1990, he became the first stand-up comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden for two consecutive nights. That same year, he played the lead role in the comedy-mystery film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
1957Uwe Foullong, German politician[†]
Uwe Foullong is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented North Rhine-Westphalia since 2025.
1957Joel Gallen, American director, producer and screenwriter[†]
Joel Gallen is an American director and producer. He is the founder of Tenth Planet Productions, a Los Angeles-based production company.
1957Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster[†]
Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer and broadcaster. He played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995, captaining them from 1985 to his retirement. On 1 October 2023, he succeeded Stephen Fry as president of Marylebone Cricket Club on a one-year term.
1957The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.[†]
The Kyshtym disaster,, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the Soviet Union.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]