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Council com repts out 4 bills; Council behind-scenes fight over taxi tax defers action on it; Council Dems urge NYS Legis special session approve taxes on off-track betting, stock transfers and personal bank checks
Eisenhower gets master plan, conf with Pentagon leaders, State Dept officials and Science Advisory Com; plan not pub
Gromyko adamant that West give up rights in W Berlin, restricted session; Western mins tell him to modify stand or conf will fail; US officials pessimistic
HR Repub Policy Com backs bill, splits with Adm; Chmn Byrnes comments
submits strike settlement plan
1959Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager[†]
Carlo Ancelotti is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Brazil national team. Nicknamed "Carletto" in Italy and "Don Carlo" in Spain, he is regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time. Ancelotti has won the UEFA Champions League five times, a record for a manager, and is the only manager to take part in six Champions League finals. Ancelotti is also the only manager to win league titles in all of Europe's top five leagues. He has won the FIFA Club World Cup three times and has won the UEFA Super Cup five times, a record for a manager.
1959Ernie C, American heavy metal guitarist, songwriter, and producer[†]
Ernie Cunnigan, better known by his stage name Ernie C, is an American musician and record producer, best known as the guitarist of rap metal band Body Count.
1959Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York[†]
Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American politician and attorney who served as the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008 after a prostitution scandal. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also the 63rd attorney general of New York from 1999 to 2006.
1959Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (born 1883)[†]
Zoltán Meskó de Széplak was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a member of the Axis powers.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]