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Nye denies to US Embassy repr that he confessed; insists he came to Cuba to fight for rebels; mother, Mrs H Lynch, pleads with Castro, lr
Carlino concerned over criticism; repts Repub legislators will hold pub meetings to explain program
Wagner's com, 4-2, approves legalized, off-track betting; Wagner comments; issues memo on rept after conf with Dem delegation; illus
Western Allies working group agrees on policy revisions and to invite USSR to foreign mins conf on major issues; new flexibility on part of W Ger discussed; pessimism on W Ger reactions discussed
Sen, 63-22, passes $465-million, 4-yr airport improvement bill; unanimously accepts Johnson proposal to cut program; bill bars Fed funds for luxuries
1959Mick McCarthy, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster[†]
Michael Joseph McCarthy is a professional football manager, pundit and former footballer. He was most recently the head coach of Blackpool.
1959Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (born 1874)[†]
Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philadelphia franchises and the Cleveland Naps, the latter of which he became the namesake of, and from 1905 through 1909, the player-manager.
1959Daniel François Malan, South African minister and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1874)[†]
Daniël François Malan was a South African politician who served as the fourth prime minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954. The National Party implemented the system of apartheid, which enforced racial segregation laws, during his tenure as prime minister.
1959Guitar Slim, American singer and guitarist (born 1926)[†]
Eddie Jones, known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted tones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]