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May 11, 1958

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Headlines from May 11, 1958

Yale Oarsmen Clip Record In Winning Carnegie Cup; YALE EIGHT FIRST ON CARNEGIE LAKE

By Allison Danzig

PRINCETON, N. J., May 10 -- Yale remained the crew to beat in the East by winning the Carnegie Cup today in record-breaking time. Fighting off the strong challenge of Cornell in a finish that had the 5,000 spectators on the university shore cheering madly. Jim Rathschmidt's Eli varsity shot across the line the winner by half a length. Princeton, with its finest performance of the year, finished three-quarters of a length astern of Cornell.

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Notable Births

1958Sayuri Kume, Japanese singer-songwriter[โ€ ]

Sayuri Kume, also known as Saki Kubota, is a Japanese singer-songwriter whose song Ihojin (1979) sold more than 1.4 million copies and reached number 1 in the Japanese singles chart. The song was used in the "Silk Road" television commercial for Sanyo.

Historical Context for May 11, 1958

In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[โ€ ]