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PRR plans $1.50-$2.00 reservation charge on all through tickets sold between NYC and Washington for destinations S of Washington
women barricade main rds to Beirut to enforce gen strike called by Phalange; 1 killed, several wounded, Beirut; McClintock confs with Chehab and Takla
Stamford police bungle raid on dice game
Indus sees 3 yrs labor peace resulting from GM pact
1958Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Barbara Kooyman is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas. In the 1980s, she, her then-husband Pat MacDonald, and a drum machine formed the recording act Timbuk 3 whose 1986 signature song was "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades". The duo did road work with Bob Dylan, Sting, and Jackson Browne. They once appeared on Saturday Night Live and were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987.
1958Wendy Makkena, American actress[†]
Wendy Rosenberg Makkena is an American actress best known for playing Sister Mary Robert in the film Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) and numerous other roles in film and television. She has appeared regularly on stage since the 1980s. Her other film credits include Air Bud (1997), State of Play (2009), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019).
1958Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host[†]
Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice, known professionally as Anneka Rice, is a British television and radio presenter, journalist and painter.
1958Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (born 1884)[†]
Ida Wüst was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
1958The current constitution of France is adopted.[†]
The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (French: la Constitution de la Cinquième République), and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946 with the exception of the preamble per a 1971 decision of the Constitutional Council. The current Constitution regards the separation of church and state, democracy, social welfare, and indivisibility as core principles of the French state.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]