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January 4, 1961

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CONGRESS OPENS WITH CONFLICTS ON PROCEDURES; Filibuster Curbs Sought in Senate -- Colmer's Purge Is Believed Certain CONGRESS STARTS WITH RULES FIGHT

By Russell Baker Special To the New York Times

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Cuban U.N. Charge To Get Stern Reply; Sharp Reply to Cuban Charge Planned by Wadsworth in U.N.

By Lindesay Parrott Special To the New York Times

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 3 -- The United States will follow up its break in relations with Cuba by sharply rejecting in the Security Council tomorrow Cuban charges of American "aggressive intentions."

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Hammarskjold Flying to Congo To Try to End Factional Strife; U.N. CHIEF LEAVERS ON CONGO MISSION

By James Feron Special To the New York Times

Hammarskjold leaves NYC for Leopoldville

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L.I.R.R. SEEKS AID TO AVERT 'CRISIS'; Says It Will Be Unable to Meet April Payroll -- Two Rail Walkouts Cited L.I.R.R. Seeks Aid to Avert A 'Crisis' Expected by April

By Clarence Dean

LIRR appeals for financial aid to avert crisis; says it will be unable to meet Apr payroll unless aided; sees $4-million deficit by yr-end

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Belgian Assembly Defeats Socialists; Violence Continues; BELGIAN ASSEMBLY DEFEATS LEFTISTS

By Harry Gilroy Special To the New York Times

House of Reprs, 121-83, defeats Socialist motion to withdraw bill; gives Govt 3 votes of confidence; Socialist party pres Collard warns party might press for change of Govt structure to a fed system if bill is passed; new violence erupts in several cities

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Notable Births

1961Sidney Green, American basketball player and coach^[†]

Sidney Green is an American former professional basketball player and former coach. He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the Chicago Bulls in 1983. After a ten-year career in the NBA he went into college coaching. He now works as a Chicago Bulls team ambassador.

1961Cliff Levingston, American basketball player and coach^[†]

Clifford Eugene Levingston is an American professional basketball coach and former player.

1961Graham McTavish, Scottish actor and author^[†]

Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz series Outlander, and Harrold Westerling in the HBO series House of the Dragon. He is also known for his roles in the video game franchise Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

Notable Deaths

1961Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)^[†]

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935.

Historical Context for January 4, 1961

In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people^[†]