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Calif housewife Mrs W Elwood sends UN $1,000, cost of fall-out shelter; sends lrs to UN Acting Sec Gen Thant, Pres Kennedy and Sec Rusk opposing shelter program on ethical and pol grounds; 28 NC individuals and families pledge to contribute to UN amt they would have spent on shelters
UN Assembly com approves by acclamation Irish resolution for accord to halt spread of nuclear arms; approves, 57-12, with 32 abstentions, Swedish proposal for 'non-nuclear club'; US and allies opposed because club does not provide for negotiations and controls; D H Popper denies Ukrainian charge US abets weapons spread
Premier Khrushchev sends message for birthday; Pope replies; contents of neither disclosed; 1st time USSR top official has sent personal message to a Pope since '17
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1961Safra Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman and boss of Oracle[†]
Safra Ada Catz is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs. In September 2019, Catz became the sole CEO after Hurd resigned due to health issues.
1961Raymond E. Goldstein, American biophysicist and academic[†]
Raymond Ethan Goldstein FRS FInstP is the Alan Turing Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
1961Jeremy Northam, English actor[†]
Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. His film credits include The Net (1995), Emma (1996), An Ideal Husband (1999), Amistad (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Enigma (2001). In television, he also played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2008) and appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017).
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]