Milestones, Jul. 4, 1960
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Died. Henrik Shipstead, 79, son of a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, who in 1922 became the first U.S. Senator elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket, served four terms—the last as a Republican—before his intransigent isolationist career was ended in the 1946 primary by Harold Stassen's hand-picked candidate, Republican Edward J. Thye; of congestive heart failure complicated by terminal pneumonia; in Alexandria, Minn.
* Nkrumah's own given name means Saturday.
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