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area's NYS counties expansion recognized by Repubs in naming NYS election slate; 4 of 5 candidates from area; map
BUFFALO, Wednesday, Aug. 27 -- District Attorney Frank S. Hogan of New York County won the Democratic nomination for United States Senator early today.
Communist shell area 5th day, ease sea and air activities; Nationalists rept knocking out Wuyu and Tateng arty; mil source repts Taiwan-Quemoy air link re-estab on ltd scale; Vice Adm Beakley, Maj Gen Moorman arrive, Taipei; 7 USN ships leave Singapore to join US-Nationalist maneuvers; US officials speculate Communists may try to take Tan islets
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Gomulka and Wyszynski reptdly unable to reach accord on ch-state disputes in 2 secret meetings, Jan and Apr; religious educ principal issue; Wyszynski at ceremony, Jasna Gora
1958Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut[†]
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
1958Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright[†]
Tom Lanoye is a Belgian novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area, and makes regular appearances at all the major European theatre festivals. He was born in Sint-Niklaas.
1958Hugh Orde, British police officer[†]
Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), representing the 44 police forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009, he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). He holds a degree in Public Administration (BA) from the University of Kent.
1958Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)[†]
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American accelerator physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project, as well as for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]