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unusual facts about Sudanese parliamentary election, 1953


Abd ul-Hamid Musa Madibbo

In the 1953 legislative election he was elected to the House of Representatives from Nyala Baggara East as a Socialist Republican Party candidate.


Amanat Ali

Amjad Amanat Ali Khan (1953–2002), classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan.

Amir Mehdi

Amir Mehdi (sometimes spelled Amir Mahdi) was a Pakistani mountaineer known for climbing Nanga Parbat Mountain in 1953 as part of an Austrian expedition and K2 in 1954 with an Italian expedition.

Anwar bin Abdul Malik

They had 3 children, Tan Sri Datuk Zarinah Anwar (1953), the ex-chairman of the Malaysian Securities Commission, Zainah Anwar (1954), a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader and activist of Sisters in Islam and Ahmad Zakii Anwar (1955), a well-known Malaysian artist.

Apartheid

The residents were taken to a large tract of land, 13 miles (19 km) from the city centre, known as Meadowlands, which the government had purchased in 1953.

Arthur Wint

He ran his final race in 1953 at Wembley Stadium, finished his internship, graduated as a doctor and the following year he was made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

Blossom Elfman

"Blossom," as she is known, and Milton are the parents of writer, director and publisher Richard Elfman, born March 2, 1949, and musician and composer Danny Elfman, born May 29, 1953.

Bras d'honneur

Its most famous occurrence in Italian cinema is in Federico Fellini's I vitelloni (1953), where the idler played by Alberto Sordi jeers at a group of workmen, combining this gesture with a raspberry.

C.J. Stone

Christopher James Stone (born 16 June 1953), pen name C.J. Stone, is best known for his columns in The Guardian Weekend and The Big Issue.

Christopher Landon

After the war he wrote several novels including: A Flag in the City (1953), his first novel which was about WWII British intelligence in Teheran and their plans to destroy Germany's fifth column operations in Persia; Stone Cold Dead in the Market; Hornet's Nest; Dead Men Rise Up Never; and Unseen Enemy (aka The Shadow of Time).

Chuck Dunaway

In 1952, after graduating from high school, Dunaway obtained his first full time on-air radio job at KBST in Big Spring, Texas, at the rate of 65 cents an hour, where he remained for one year before joining KPRC in Houston as a staff announcer in 1953.

Delmas Milling v Du Plessis

In June 1953, a document was signed, on behalf of Delmas Milling, by JF du Plessis in confirmation.

Dickstein Shapiro

Dickstein Shapiro was founded by Sidney Dickstein and David I. Shapiro in New York City in 1953.

Douglas Cardinal

In 1953, he attended the University of British Columbia; he later attended the University of Texas at Austin, from which he graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1963.

Đorđije Pajković

He also served as the President of the Assembly of SAP Kosovo from 12 December 1953 to 5 May 1956 and the leader of the League of Communists of Kosovo from March 1945 to February 1956.

George Chiweshe

Retired Brigadier General George Mutandwa Chiweshe (born June 5, 1953) is the Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.

Gilberto Hirata

Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (born January 17, 1953) in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California) was state deputy representing the XIV electoral district (corresponding to the urban area of Ensenada, Baja California).

Gong Sung-jin

Gong Sung-jin (born April 20, 1953) is a member of the Grand National Party (also known as the Hannara Party) in South Korea, representing the Gangnam District of Seoul.

Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

The Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was established in 1953 and ran the Federation until its dissolution at the end of 1963.

Grant Golden

In 1953, Grant, who is Jewish, competed in the Maccabiah Games and captured three gold medals in the men's singles (over South African Sid Levy), the men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and the mixed doubles with partner Anita Kanter.

Hash function

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Hootie Ingram

During the 1953 football season, Ingram was moved to the quarterback position on an Alabama team that included Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr.

James Pease

On his discharge in 1945, he appeared at the Montreal Festivals and in a series of operas at the New York City Center Theatre, making his debut there as Sparafucile on 9 May 1946 (continuing to sing at that venue until 1953).

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

John Ondawame

John Otto Ondawame (born November 30, 1953 in Wanamum, Mimika Regency in West Papua) is an academic and activist of the West Papua liberation movement.

Katarismo

The agrarian reform of 1953 had enabled a group of Aymara youth to begin university studies in La Paz in the 1960s.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Ken Archer

His younger brother Ron Archer played 19 Tests for Australia between 1953 to 1956.

Max Goof

He later appeared in a few other shorts such as Father's Lion (1952), Father's Day Off (1953) and Aquamania (1961).

Max Hamilton

He went on to work under Dennis Hill at King's College Hospital and in 1953, was appointed lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Leeds where few years later he constructed the Hamilton Anxiety and Hamilton Depression Rating Scales.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

In the 1953 bloody Lahore riots, religious extremists called for Zafarullah Khan's expulsion due to his adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith.

Panicum mosaic virus

PMV was identified in 1953, and is known to infect switchgrass, centipedegrass and St. Augustine Grass.

Pegaso Z-102

A Pegaso Z-102 coupé by Saoutchick, owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, was in this respect the epitome of coachwork sophistication, as it had seats upholstered with leopard skin and controls in gold, and in such a finish it won the 1953 Enghien-les-Bains (France) Grand Prix d'Elegance.

Peter Coke

In 1953, Coke portrayed the role of William in the film The Blakes Slept Here.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Phil Graham

The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Port Shepstone High School

The school officially opened on 13 February 1953 when the old Port Shepstone School (founded in 1883) grew too big and had to split into the Port Shepstone Primary School and High School.

René Abjean

Born in Brest, René Abjean made his début as a musician in the choir of Plouguerneau in 1953.

Ripa Teatina

Rocky Mattioli is another boxer from Ripa Teatina, born in 1953.

Robert Coe

Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985), career diplomat and the U.S. ambassador to Denmark from 1953 to 1957

Roosevelt College Quirino

Roosevelt College Quirino is a defunct college founded in 1953 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Rosina Raisbeck

After leaving Covent Garden in 1953, she sang frequently in concert, and was one of the huge choir at Westminster Abbey that sang during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Take These Chains from My Heart

"Take These Chains from My Heart" is a 1953 single by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys, written by Fred Rose and Hy Heath.

The Redhead from Wyoming

The Redhead from Wyoming is a 1953 American Western drama film produced by Leonard Goldstein and directed by Lee Sholem.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Urushibara

Urushibara Mokuchu (漆原木虫) (1888-1953), given name Yoshijirô, a Japanese print maker

Vildósola

Gus Vildósola (born 1953), Mexican off-road racing driver and businessman

WFXR

The channel 27 frequency in Roanoke was originally home to WROV-TV, which operated for less than five months in 1953.

William C. Wampler

Wampler was elected as a Republican to the 83rd Congress (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955), during which time he was its youngest member.

WJZ

WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/digital) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ-TV from 1948 to 1953


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