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Cairo radio repts new revolt in Kirkuk area; charges Kurds are going to Iraq as USSR 'volunteers' to help put down revolt; Kassim promises amnesty to Shammar tribesmen who fled Iraq during Mar revolt if they return; map
Unexploded Ger World War II bomb uncovered by excavators, S bank of Thames, London; map; position near subway and rr makes city tense; bomb removed; illus
Council, 23-1, adopts Sharkey resolution to form com to weigh secession; Isaacs scores proposal
Gov Rockefeller calls Comr Monaghan following NYS Investigation Comm interim rept charging Monaghan staff members were entertained at tracks during working hrs and that they charged state for expenses paid by tracks; Comm also probed alleged padding of improvement costs, Yonkers and Roosevelt; Monaghan holds charges baseless; admits Monticello track contractors worked at his NYC home but says they were paid by him
Agrees to run for Pres, relinquish Chancellorship; por
1959Alain Bondue, French cyclist[†]
Alain Bondue is a former racing cyclist from France. He competed for France in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union in the individual pursuit event where he finished in second place.
1959Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (born 1913)[†]
Marios Makrionitis, SJ was a Greek Jesuit prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Athens from 1953 until 1959, when he died from injuries caused by an automobile accident.
1959A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.[†]
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."
1959The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.[†]
The Organization of American States is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]