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The city has called upon the Consolidated Edison Company to report today on the cause of the power failure that blacked out five square miles of upper Manhattan Monday night and disrupted the lives of 500,000 people.
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Meany sees Cong passing 'killer' reform bill, news conf; charges anti-labor forces are determined to render unions impotent; scores Sen deadline for conf; AFL-CIO exec council denounces Landrum-Griffin bill
conf ends with format signing of Declaration of Santiago proclaiming pol principles, condemning dictatorships, stressing free elections and human rights; conf also signs resolutions on human rights conv, urging cuts in mil spending; rev; Herter, in farewell statement, hails conf results
named 1st pres of Continental Baseball League; resigns as Pittsburgh club chmn
1959Chris Mortimer, Australian rugby league player[†]
Chris Mortimer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for the Canterbury-Bankstown, Penrith, New South Wales and for the Australian national side.
1959Ivan Neville, American singer-songwriter[†]
Ivan Neville is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to the other members of The Neville Brothers.
1959Ricky Pierce, American basketball player[†]
Richard Charles Pierce is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Deuces" and "Big Paper Daddy", he was selected as an NBA All-Star (1991) and was twice the NBA Sixth Man of the Year while with the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]