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NY Harbor Waterfront Comm gets show-cause order against Cunard, Ital Line and US Lines in move to bar their using office staffs to handle baggage and perform other longshore work during dock strike
Under Sec Dillon reads Eisenhower message reaffirming US policies of defending freedom and promoting peace, Far East-Amer Commerce and Indus Council
City Planning Comm says funds lack will defer start on new hosp till '62
campaign ends; Conservatives are slight favorite; Macmillan, Hailsham, Phillips s
1959Tommy Armour III, American golfer[†]
Thomas Dickson Armour III is an American professional golfer.
1959Nick Bakay, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Nicholas Bakay is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and sports commentator. He is known as the voice of Salem Saberhagen on ABC/The WB's Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Sabrina: The Animated Series, and Norbert Beaver on The Angry Beavers. He played Karl on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death as well as serving as a producer of the show. He was also one of the executive producers of the CBS sitcom Mom.
1959Gavin Friday, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and producer[†]
Gavin Friday is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter, best known as a founding member of the post-punk group The Virgin Prunes.
1959Erik Gundersen, Danish motorcycle racer[†]
Erik Gundersen is a former motorcycle speedway rider. Gundersen is one of the most successful speedway riders of all time, having won the Speedway World Champion on three occasions, the Long Track World Championship twice and the World Pairs Championship five times. He is also a seven-time World Team Cup winner with Denmark, and earned 91 international caps for the country.
1959Peter Horrocks, English journalist and producer[†]
Peter John Gibson Horrocks CBE is a broadcast executive and a former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was previously director of the BBC World Service Group.
1959Mike Morgan, American baseball player and coach[†]
Michael Thomas Morgan is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for 12 different teams over 25 years, and is one of 31 players in baseball history to appear in Major League baseball games in four decades (1978–2002). Upon his retirement, Morgan held the major league record for most major league teams played for (12), but this record was surpassed by Octavio Dotel in 2012 and Edwin Jackson in 2018. Because of this, Morgan was nicknamed "the Nomad" by his teammates due to his constant travel from team to team.
1959Carlos I. Noriega, Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut[†]
Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian-American NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]