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NYS Human Rights Comm orders Aramco NYC office to stop refusing to hire Jews; Amer Jewish Cong hails move; order bars co from using employment application forms, including application for Saudi Arabian visa, that imply certain creeds are preconditions for hiring; co spokesman comments
truckers start shutdown; Adelizzi comments; Local 807 holds only 28 cos shut down; starts to strike cos that did not sign
reptd assassinated by mil faction which proclaims repub
approves rate bill including com's amendment, rejects Clark proposals; he scores amendment
Ala Gov Patterson wires Pres Kennedy not to use troops or marshals; calls such move 'foulest dictatorship'; backs Barnett; pledges similar defiance in Ala; text
1962Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Grant Scott Fuhr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) and former goaltending coach for the Arizona Coyotes, who played for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s during which he won the Stanley Cup five times.
1962Laurie Rinker, American golfer[†]
Laurie Anne Rinker is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
1962Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager[†]
Dietmar "Didi" Schacht is a German football coach and former player who most recently was in charge of SV Straelen.
1962Chuck Taylor, American journalist[†]
Chuck Taylor is an American music journalist. He served as a reporter, senior writer, columnist and senior editor at Billboard magazine from 1995 to 2009. There, he held the titles of Senior Editor/Talent, Senior Writer, Radio Editor, host of the Billboard Radio Countdown (online), columnist of AirWaves and, Single Reviews Editor since 1998; as well as Managing Editor of Top 40/AC for affiliated publication Billboard Radio Monitor, and senior editor/features and AC format editor for Billboard sister Radio & Records.
1962Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (born 1925)[†]
Roger Nimier was a French novelist.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]