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police and troops fire on pro-Ydigoras demonstrators; kill 1, hurt 4; state of siege, curfew in effect; Oliva links communism with Ydigoras protest movement
says policy is to make data available 'progressively within bounds of security,'
161 new issues totaling 59 million shares and $1.4 billion in bonds approved for listing, NYSE
Sen Select (McClellan) Com probes mgt consultant Shefferman (Labor Relations Assocs) role in 'union busting'; G Long, others testify Shefferman in '55 sent agent to Continental Baking div Morton Frozen Foods (then Morton Packing Co) to block Packinghouse Workers orgn efforts, later sent another agent who installed Bakery Workers without an election
A P Sloan Jr gets F H Lahey award for med educ
1957Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda[†]
Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the main belligerents of the Rwandan Civil War and was the armed force which ended the 1994's Rwandan genocide. He was since considered Rwanda's de facto leader while Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu, up to his 2000's election as Rwanda's 4th president and the abolition of the vice-presidential position.
1957Graham Rix, English footballer and coach[†]
Graham Cyril Rix is an English former professional football player who later became a coach and manager.
1957Martin Luther King III, American human rights activist, philanthropist and advocate[†]
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights activist, philanthropist, and an advocate. The second child and eldest son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004. As of 2024, he is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]