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Atty Gen Lefkowitz recalls shakedown racket operated by Manhattan City Prison (Tombs) guards, '55; charges Wagner failed to act
Adoula says Congo Govt takes 'police action' to end Katanga secession, radio s; says all peaceful means fail; sees UN execs; UN repts Katanga bombs rrs and villages on Kasai border; calls it cease-fire violation; map
USSR, charging revival of militarism is aggressive threat, asks Finland to conf on defense against attack from W Ger and its NATO partners, note
Kennedy to make appearance for Wagner; Wagner offers program to rehabilitate Bowery
BONN, Germany, Oct. 30 -- Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano announced today that he had offered his resignation. He said he would not serve in a new government.
1961Alonzo Babers, American runner and pilot[†]
Alonzo C. Babers is an American former athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 400 m and the 4 × 400 m relay.
1961Kate Campbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jamae Kathryn Campbell is an American folk singer-songwriter.
1961Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), the horror comedy The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film King Kong (2005), the World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) and the documentary The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He is the fifth-highest-grossing film director of all-time, with his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.
1961Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish musician, songwriter, and actor[†]
Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. A member of the band since its inception, he has recorded 15 studio albums with U2. Mullen's distinctive, almost military drumming style developed from his playing martial beats in childhood marching bands.
1961In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]