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LONDON, Jan. 10 -- Norwich City, a 4,000-to-1 shot for the English soccer cup, defeated Manchester United by 3 -- 0 today in one of the biggest upsets in the sixty-six-year history of the competition. Manchester United was the 19-2 choice to regain the cup.
The stock market received its first jolt of the new year, but quickly recovered from it last week. In the first full week of trading, stocks met with their widest decline since November, then rallied briskly to erase the losses. Considered a technical reaction to the sharp rise during recent weeks, the dip only emphasized the strong recuperative ability of the market.
Book Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev revd
THE Old Vic concluded its successful engagement at the Broadway Theatre last night and tomorrow enters the final phase of its happy tour of our continent. Boston, Philadelphia and Washington remain to greet the players from Waterloo Road, and then it's back across the bounding main.
1959Brett Bodine, American NASCAR driver[†]
Brett Elias Bodine III is an American former stock car racing driver, former driver of the pace car in Cup Series events, and current NASCAR employee. Brett is the younger brother of 1986 Daytona 500 winner Geoff Bodine and the older brother of 2006 and 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Todd Bodine. He was born in Chemung, New York. Brett has been named one of the 50 greatest NASCAR modified drivers of all time, was the runner-up for the 1986 Xfinity Series championship, and collected a total of five Xfinity Series wins and sixteen pole positions. Brett made 480 Cup series starts with one win and five pole positions. He has led over 1,000 career laps in both the NASCAR Cup series and the NASCAR Xfinity series.
1959Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
George Robert Ramage is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers. He also played one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Birmingham Bulls. He was a two-time Stanley Cup winner in the NHL.
195936 people are killed when Lufthansa Flight 502 crashes on approach to Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport in Brazil.[†]
Lufthansa Flight 502 was a scheduled flight from Hamburg, Germany to Buenos Aires, Argentina on 11 January 1959. The flight was being operated by a Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation. On the leg between Senegal and Brazil the Super Constellation was on approach to Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport when it crashed near Flecheiras Beach just short of the runway. All 29 passengers and seven of the ten crew were killed. It was the first fatal accident involving the current Lufthansa since it was formed in 1955.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]