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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959John Baron, English captain and politician[†]
John Charles Baron is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon and Billericay, previously Billericay, from 2001 to 2024. He has frequently rebelled against his party, specifically in his calling for a referendum on the European Union (EU) before the 2015 election and in opposing military intervention in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
1959Tom Chambers, American basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Thomas Doane Chambers is an American former professional basketball player. From 1981 to 1997 he played in the National Basketball Association as well as internationally. Playing power forward in the NBA. Chambers was selected to four NBA All-Star Games and was a two-time All-NBA Second Team member during his career. In December 2021, Chambers was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame but did not advance to the list of finalists.
1959Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Marcella Levy, known professionally as Marcy Levy and Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit "Lay Down Sally" and released her debut studio album Marcella in 1982. She joined Shakespears Sister in 1988 with ex-Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey. Their first two studio albums, Sacred Heart (1989), and Hormonally Yours (1992), both reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Detroit sang the lead vocals on their biggest hit, "Stay", which spent eight consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1992. Detroit left the band in 1993 and had a UK top 20 hit with "I Believe" in 1994. She formed the Marcy Levy Band in 2002, and finished third in the 2010 ITV series Popstar to Operastar.
1959Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Kathleen Alice Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1: "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come from the Heart", and "Burnin' Old Memories", plus 12 more that charted within the top ten. She has released 14 studio albums, two Christmas albums, and one greatest hits album. Most of her material was recorded for Universal Music Group Nashville's Mercury Records Nashville 8division between 1984 and 2000, with later albums being issued on Narada Productions, her own Captain Potato label, and Sugar Hill Records. Among her albums, she has received five gold certifications and one platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald, Tim O'Brien, and her husband, Jon Vezner. Mattea is also a two-time Grammy Award winner: in 1990 for "Where've You Been", and in 1993 for her Christmas album Good News. Her style is defined by traditional country, bluegrass, folk, and Celtic music influences.
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US stresses determination to safeguard Western rights despite USSR threats, statement on Geneva conf recess; State Dept spokesman deplores Khrushchev views
Young Repub Fed censures Smith and Langer
BOULDER, Colo., June 20 -- Heroics and heartbreaks were mixed in almost equal proportions today as the United States concluded an impressive parade of the athletic might it will send against the Soviet Union and Western Hemisphere neighbors this summer.
The Yankees moved to a game and half from first place yesterday by routing the league-leading Indians, 10 -- 2. Bill Skowron drove in five runs for the fifth-place Bombers with two homers and a triple. The Tigers downed the Senators, 7 -- 4, and now trail Cleveland by half a game.
Outer Barrier, NC
GANDER, Nfld. -- Once the ugly duckling of trans-Atlantic aviation, the airport at Gander has been transformed into as sleek and handsome a swan of an air terminal as exists in North America.
" This is the starting of a new era. * * * In all the long history of the Senate, never has one party won so many seats at a single election as we have won. * * * We have -- by our majority here -- an obligation to lead * * * We shall honor the mandate."
W Ger opposes summit conf before Berlin settlement
The Congressional Directory's biography of Lewis L. Strauss says in part:
Ineffective Soldier, The: Lessons for Management and the Nation: by E Ginzburg, J K Anderson, S W Ginzburg, J L Herma, others, Vols 1-3
BALTIMORE, June 20 -- Bud Daley, with help from Bob Grim, defeated Hoyt Wilhelm in a battle of knuckleballs tonight. The result was that the Kansas City Athletics beat the Orioles. 6 -- 2, and snapped a seven-game losing streak.