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NURB orders Hod Carriers Local 840 to stop picketing Blinne Construction Co, Kan City, to protest alleged unfair labor practices; rejects claim that picketing is 'informational'
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 21 -- Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold called on members of the United Nations today to strengthen its emergency army in the Congo.
Tshombe orders gen mobilization in Katanga; denounces UN resolution; invites Gizenga and Kashamura to roundtable conf in Geneva; has already invited Kasavubu and Kalonji; sends wire to 'friendly' nations asking they urge UN to re-examine Congo policy; illus revg Pres Guard, Elisabethville; McKeown en route to see Mobutu
10,000 demonstrate in front of US Embassy, Rangoon; dispersed by Burmese troops; map
1961Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer[†]
Akira Takasaki is a Japanese musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and sole constant member of the heavy metal band Loudness. He is also the guitarist of the band Lazy, with which he first rose to prominence in the 1970s.
1961Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (born 1889)[†]
Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca, was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag". He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, "Livery Stable Blues" in 1917.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]