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BOSTON, May 7 -- Bill Mon-bouquette held Detroit hitless today after giving a double to the second batter of the game. The Boston right-hander pitched a 5-0 victory.
ACTORS' EQUITY'S only strike, in 1919, won the legitimate actor the right to bargain collectively. Equity has since steadily improved the performer's lot, with due regard for theatre and audience.
exports up to $1,751,200,000, imports up to $1,355,000,000, Mar
Reinforced concrete is rapidly replacing steel as the dominant material for the framework of tall apartment buildings being built in New York.
Brit fear US prestige damage
1960Franco Baresi, Italian footballer and coach[†]
Franchino Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager. He mainly played as a sweeper or as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. He is considered to be one of the best defenders of all time. He was ranked 19th in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century. With Milan, he won three UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A titles, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups, as well as a World Cup with Italy.
1960J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (born 1904)[†]
John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS, known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai, in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]