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T Szulc held nearly 12 hrs, Cuba; released; told charges against him were not proved
Mayor, family return to NYC
Congolese Sen unanimously bars USSR mil intervention threatened by Lumumba; demands Belgian troops leave at once; Lower House demands Belgians leave within 12 hrs; resolves that diplomatic ties with Belgium may be severed only by Parliament special joint session; Belgian Cabinet meets; sees situation worsening; plans to evacuate all Belgians from Lower Congo; Socialists warn of extreme Rightist movement in Belgium as result of crisis
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, July 18 -- Belgian paratroopers put up barbed-wire entanglements today in front of positions they still hold along the city's main boulevard and around the Belgian Embassy in the downtown area.
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1960Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Atom Egoyan is an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, The Sweet Hereafter (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
1960Kevin Haskins, English drummer and songwriter[†]
Kevin Michael Dompe, born and best-known as Kevin Michael Haskins, is an English drummer, best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]