Tuesday, May 13, 1958

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The Headlines

Eisenhower Bids Negroes Be Patient About Rights; PRESIDENT ASKS NEGRO PATIENCE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

All I Have To Do Is Dream

The Everly Brothers

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, the US Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.

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• May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.

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• Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Pius IX (1792)
• Alphonse Daudet (1840)
• Maria Theresa (1717)
• Stevie Wonder (1950)
• Ronald Ross (1857)

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Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)