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CHICAGO, Nov. 28 -- Stan Mikita, a National Hockey League rookie from Czechoslovakia, scored twice tonight to lead the Chicago Black Hawks to a 6-2 victory over the New York Rangers.
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BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 28 -- Gale Weidner threw two touchdown passes in the second half today as Colorado rallied to defeat the Air Force, 15 -- 7.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28 -- Navy perpetrated another of its shocking uprisings against a favored Army football team today. This time it was a massacre.
1959Richard Borcherds, South African-English mathematician and academic[†]
Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician currently working in quantum field theory. He is known for his work in lattices, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras, for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. He is well known for his proof of monstrous moonshine using ideas from string theory.
1959Neal Broten, American ice hockey player[†]
Neal LaMoy Broten is an American former professional ice hockey player. A member of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980, Broten was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 2000 having appeared in 1,099 National Hockey League (NHL) regular season games from 1981 to 1997 with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings. He is the older brother of Aaron and Paul Broten.
1959Rahm Emanuel, American businessman and politician, 55th Mayor of Chicago[†]
Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician, advisor, diplomat, and former investment banker who most recently served as United States ambassador to Japan from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms from 2003 to 2009. He was the White House chief of staff from 2009 to 2010 under President Barack Obama and served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]