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April 10, 1959

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Headlines from April 10, 1959

CITY VOTE BACKS A BAN ON TRAFFIC IN WASHINGTON SQ.; Buses Will Be Rerouted and Only Emergency Vehicles Permitted in Park JULY START IS POSSIBLE Board Delays Action on Big Slum Project to Weigh Attacks on Sponsor TRAFFIC BAN NEAR IN WASHINGTON SQ.

By Charles G. Bennett

Estimate Bd votes to permanently ban all traffic, except emergency vehicles, from Washington Sq Pk; asks Comr Wiley and Franchises Dept to work out plan for rerouting 5th Av Coach Co buses by July 1; Greenwich Village com hails vote

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U. S. SEEKS TO END BONN-LONDON RIFT ON GERMAN POLICY; Drafts Plan of Unification and Arms Reduction for Talks With Soviet SPLIT CAUSES CONCERN Adenauer's Resentment at British Is Said to Date From 1945 Incident U.S. Drafts a German Program To Solve Bonn-London Dispute

By Dana Adams Schmidtspecial To the New York Times

US State Dept reptd offering set of principles on reunification in relation to Eur security aimed at healing Brit-W Ger rift before East-West talks; speculation; Macmillan-Adenauer differences analyzed

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Notable Births

Babyface (musician)

1959Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]

Kenneth Brian Edmonds, better known by his stage name Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has written and produced 26 number-one R&B hits and won 13 Grammy Awards. He was ranked number 20 on NME's 50 of The Greatest Producers Ever list.

1959Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician[†]

Yvan Loubier is a Canadian politician and one of the founders of the Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois. He was a Bloc QuĂ©bĂ©cois member of the House of Commons of Canada representing the district of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, from the since he was first elected in the 1993 election, until his resignation on February 21, 2007.

Brian Setzer

1959Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Brian Robert Setzer is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film La Bamba.

Historical Context for April 10, 1959

In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]