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L&N orders 1,800 cars from Pullman-Standard
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26 -- Navy's exuberant football team rated unanimously for the Orange Bowl, sunshine and orange juice, in that order, after beating Army today.
NY Reserve Bank installs pilot electronic device to process checks
WITH the news columns full of reports on Africa, with the United Nations welcoming Nigeria, the most populous country on the continent, as its ninety-ninth member and its twenty-sixth African state, it is hard to realize that only seven years ago when George H.T. Kimble started work, for the Twentieth Century Fund, on this important survey, tropical Africa was largely unfamiliar to the American public.
1960Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator[†]
Kevin Henkes is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. As an illustrator he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of his books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards.
1960Ken O'Brien, American football player and coach[†]
Kenneth John O'Brien Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles. One of the six quarterbacks in the famed quarterback class of 1983, O'Brien was the first quarterback in the franchise history of the Jets to finish with the highest passer rating in a season. He held the team record for most consecutive pass completions (17) in a game. In 1997, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
1960Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota[†]
Timothy James Pawlenty is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served from 2003 to 2011 as the 39th governor of Minnesota. A member of the Republican Party, Pawlenty served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and as House Majority Leader from 1999 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 presidential election.
1960Michael Rispoli, American actor[†]
Michael Rispoli is an American character actor. He was a contender for the role of Tony Soprano in the HBO television series The Sopranos, but was ultimately cast as Jackie Aprile, a recurring character in the show's first season. Rispoli reunited with Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini in the 2009 thriller The Taking of Pelham 123. He was a series regular on the HBO series The Deuce.
1960Maria Schneider, American composer and musician[†]
Maria Lynn Schneider is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.
1960Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine[†]
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She is a Candidate of Economic Sciences.
1960Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and politician[†]
Gianni Vernetti is a writer and Italian politician.
1960Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (born 1875)[†]
Frederick Luther Fane, played cricket for the England cricket team in 14 Test matches. He also played for Essex, Oxford University and London County.
1960Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1870)[†]
Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 8 March 1926 until 10 August 1929, and from 10 August 1939 until 3 September 1940.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]