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Gonzalez asks Cong to annul election, call new one after request by Oliva to halt increasing st riots; Oliva bars Mil Junta
Fed Reserve decides to ease tight money policy through open mkt purchases and various tech moves
Hungarian veterans give to Gettysburg, Pa, painting of Eisenhower to memorialize Hungarian revolt
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 23--Syrian sources said today their Government would not agree to mediation by King Saud of Saudi Arabia and would press for immediate ... appointment of a commission to inquire into Syria's charge that Turkey had threatened international peace.
1957Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager[†]
Ronald Clyde Gardenhire is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets from 1981 to 1985. After another year playing in the minor leagues, he served as a manager in the Minnesota Twins farm system for three years, then as a coach for the Twins from 1991 to 2001, and then as the manager from 2002 to 2014, winning the American League Manager of the Year Award in 2010. He then coached for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017 and managed the Detroit Tigers from 2018 through most of 2020, when he retired from baseball.
1957John Kassir, American actor and voice actor[†]
John Kassir is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as the voice of the Cryptkeeper in HBO's Tales from the Crypt franchise. He also appeared in the role of Ralph in the off-Broadway show Reefer Madness and its 2005 film adaptation. He is also the first voice actor to take over Disney comics character Scrooge McDuck following the death of Alan Young.
1957The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar crewed space program.[†]
The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and as a space interceptor to sabotage enemy satellites. The program ran from October 24, 1957, to December 10, 1963, cost US$660 million, and was cancelled just after spacecraft construction had begun.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]