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E E Cummings dies
Havana press hails USSR aid, warns US against invasion; diplomatic sources see build-up as primarily defensive; signs of USSR penetration discussed; role of Aragones in aid talks cited
Bur forces capture 3 towns
staff study sees area heading toward 'spread-city' pattern with people living increasingly further from jobs by '85; sees population rising by 6 million to 22 million and 450,000 drop in core population; puts capital costs at $175 billion in pub and private spending, '60-85, with operating costs of 1,400 local govts rising from $4.1 billion to $8.4 billion; other details; study dir S B Tankel comments; research sponsored by Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Bros Fund, Taconic Foundation
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1962Kiran More, Indian cricketer[†]
Kiran Shankar More is an Indian former cricketer and wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He also took up the position Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006. In July 2019, he was appointed in a senior consultancy role for the United States national cricket team. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup and the 1990-91 Asia Cup.
1962Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, Danish Minister of Education[†]
Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014, and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019, Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016, Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.
1962Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]