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MIAMI BEACH, Dec. 5 -- The major league trading mart broke afresh today. Two deals, involving seven players and with the Phillies taking part in both, were completed.
ROME, Dec. 5 -- It was the summer of the next-to-last year of World War II when Yogi Berra came to Rome for the first time. He was 19, a seaman first class dressed in his best white uniform. He hitchhiked up from Naples, where his ship was taking on stores.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 -- Johnny Unitas, passing for three touchdowns and running for another, led the Baltimore Colts to a 34-14 victory over the San Francisco 49ers today.
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Dr Saenz de Tejada charges that Cuban officials R Castro and E Guervara aid pro-Communist rebel group under Arevalo to train in Cuba for invasion, OAS meeting; details financing and arms shipments, but defers bid for OAS action pending corrective steps by Cuba; L Marrero Artiles (Cuba) denies charges
1959Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic[†]
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech. She is co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth and gave a TEDMED talk on small data in 2013.
1959Stephen Hepburn, English politician[†]
Stephen Hepburn is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Jarrow from 1997 to 2019. Hepburn was a member of the Labour Party until 7 October 2019, when he was suspended from the party following an accusation of sexual harassment. He then sat as an independent and was barred by the party from standing as a Labour candidate.
1959Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (died 2015)[†]
Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and producer. Beginning in 2002, he was the fourth president of Nintendo, as well as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo of America from 2013 until his death in 2015. Iwata was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.
1959Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer[†]
Stephen H. Muggleton is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]