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Special grand jury indicts LI Lighting Co sr vp Wakeman for stealing $14,700 from co to make pol payoff to Huntington Town Clerk McNulty, also indicted; claims McNulty got money from Wakeman, '56, in guise of realty brokerage fee for which no service was rendered and split it with J H Hulsen; co pres Tuohy backs Wakeman
Wagner assigns legal aide J Lutsky to attend future Com meetings as watchdog for Mayor and Estimate Bd
A water main at Seventy-eighth Street and Madison Avenue broke early today, taking off a manhole cover, gouging a hole twelve-foot square in the pavement and cutting off the water supply to hundreds of persons in the area.
Amer newspapers displayed 1st time; encased in plastic cases; entire Sunday ed of NY Times to be shown
Herter, in US, says talks blunted crisis; says Gromyko sought to 'ease' West from Berlin
1959Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author[†]
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudo-historical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of harboring Islamophobia.
1959Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach[†]
Ali Hassimshah Omarshah, known as Ali Shah, is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer. An all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace, Shah played in three Test matches and 28 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1996, and was the first non-white player to represent the country. He was educated at Morgan High School.
1959Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.[†]
The Explorers Program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched in 1958, Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the United States to achieve orbit. Over 90 space missions have been launched since. Starting with Explorer 6, it has been operated by NASA, with regular collaboration with a variety of other institutions, including many international partners.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]