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February 8 – Jin Yong's first wuxia novel, The Book and the Sword (書劍恩仇錄), begins publication in the New Evening Post (Hong Kong), where he is an editor.; March 3 – Jean Cocteau is elected to the Académie française (inducted October 20); on January 8 he has been elected to the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (inducted October 1).
Book Author January 2: The View from Pompey's Head: Hamilton Basso: January 9 January 16 January 23 January 30 February 6 February 13 February 20 February 27 March 6 March 13 March 20 March 27 April 3 April 10: Sincerely, Willis Wayde: John P. Marquand: April 17 April 24 May 1 May 8 May 15 May 22: Bonjour Tristesse: Françoise Sagan: May 29 ...
The number three propeller and engine detach from the Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26 Clipper United States, operating as Flight 845/26 with 23 people on board, forcing it to ditch in the Pacific Ocean 35 miles (58 km) off the coast of Oregon and killing four people.
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David L. Cohen (born 1955), senior executive vice president and chief lobbyist for Comcast, chief of staff to Philadelphia Mayor, U.S. ambassador to Canada nominee; Pat Croce (born 1954), entrepreneur, Philadelphia 76ers executive and part-owner, author, and television personality
Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world, on the 1955 French Makalu expedition. The entire team of climbers reaches the summit over the next two days. [7] May 18 – Free movement of residents between North and South Vietnam ends. [8]
American book publisher [29] George E. Bria: 1916–2017: 101: American journalist [30] Sir Harry Brittain: 1873–1974: 100: British journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union [31] Arthur Judson Brown: 1856–1963: 106: American clergyman, missionary and author [citation needed] William Slater Brown: 1896–1997: 100: American novelist ...
Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.