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Repub leaders map plans to change pub concept of Repub party as party of big business before '60 elections; to enlist Pres Eisenhower aid; Vice Pres Nixon to coordinate planning
Adm reptdly rejects USAF request to expand ICBM sqdns from 13 to 20
$10.7-million deficiency funds bill offered
in Havana; welcome described; illus
Deputy Premier Mikoyan scores curbs, s, Detroit
1959Rigoberta MenchĂș, Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate[â ]
Rigoberta MenchĂș Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. MenchĂș has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960â1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.
1959The Vega de Tera dam fails, triggering a disastrous flood that nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents.[â ]
The Vega de Tera disaster, was a flood that occurred on the early morning of 9 January 1959 in the Province of Zamora, Spain. The flood was caused by the failure of a dam, releasing water from the Vega de Tera reservoir. A total of 144 of the 664 residents in Ribadelago were killed. It was the first of two fatal dam failures in Europe that year; in December, the collapse of the Malpasset Dam resulted in over 400 fatalities.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[â ]