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17th Dist orgn and reform leaders meet; agree on J A Farley as delegate
Ct voids fine
Chou to visit Apr 19-26
USSR offers to shift nuclear weapons ban to 1st stage in its timetable, 10-nation conf; Ormsby-Gore asks how USSR stands on controls; Min Martino (Italy) says all bases and mil schools would wither away in final stage of Western plan; Roschin opposes West's gradual approach to nuclear disarmament, news conf, Geneva; queries proposed ban on launching of nuclear bombs into space; Martino and Eaton illus
30 alleged plotters held, Las Villas Prov
1960Jim Covert, American football player[†]
James Paul "Jimbo" Covert is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Chicago Bears. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning consensus All-American honors. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL draft.
1960José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (born 1904)[†]
José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic.
1960Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.[†]
Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science. His central insight was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work using lasers to determine atomic energy levels with great precision.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]