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Govt curbs sales of foreign liquors at US bases abroad to reduce dollar outflow
Congo breaks relations with UAR, Kasavubu lr to Pres Nasser; charges Egyptian diplomats aid Lumumba; demands recall of Embassy staff; army orders 6 diplomats return to Ghana; Mobutu continues search for Lumumba; Guinea Pres Toure recalls aide
team of Pittsburgh U scientists under Dr K Hofmann synthesizes substance identical biologically to ACTH with full activity of natural ACTH
Wagner holds separate confs with Dem Voters Com aide Engel and with Lehman; tries to set up conf with Repr Powell and Jones, Harlem leaders neutral on issue; Powell, in Washington, says R F Kennedy asked him to attend neither this meeting nor that of Tammany dist leaders
1960Peter Blakeley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Peter Blakeley is an Australian white soul/adult contemporary singer and songwriter.
1960Deb Haaland, American politician, 54th United States Secretary of the Interior[†]
Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who served as the 54th United States secretary of the interior from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021 and as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party from 2015 to 2017. Haaland, a Native American, is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe.
1960Razzle, English rock drummer (died 1984)[†]
Nicholas Charles Dingley, better known by his stage name Razzle, was an English musician, who was the drummer of the Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks from 1982 until his death in 1984.
1960Rick Savage, English singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
Richard Savage is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist and a founder member of the rock band Def Leppard. Savage and lead singer Joe Elliott are the only two remaining original members of the band. With drummer Rick Allen, they are also the only members who have performed on every album.
1960Silk Smitha, Indian film actress[†]
Vadlapati Vijayalakshmi, better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked mainly in Tamil and Telugu cinema, in addition to some Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She became one of India's most popular sex symbols of the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as one of the most sought-after erotic actresses in South Indian cinema in the 1980s. Smitha was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre in the late 1980s.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]