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ICC, 8-3, approves acquisition of B&O by C&O; denies Justice Dept bid that acquisition be considered together with pending proposals for PRR-NY Central and Norfolk & Western-Nickel Plate mergers
Pres Kennedy holds USSR setback in crisis checked Communist onrush, improved peace outlook; rev
NEW YORK. Southern California's Trojans outlasted a battling Wisconsin team, 42 to 37, in the highest scoring Rose Bowl game in history yesterday, to highlight the New Year's day bowl games.
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Pres Kennedy to propose full deduction for outlays for machinery and equipment for research in yr they are made; move called 'expensing' of capital investment; may seek repeal of Sen R B Lang amendment to '62 7% investment credit which kept depreciation at 93%
1963David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster[†]
David Brian Cone is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball. A third round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals in the 1981 MLB draft, he made his MLB debut in 1986 and continued playing until 2003, pitching for five different teams. Cone batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
1963Edgar Martínez, American baseball player[†]
Edgar Martínez, nicknamed "Gar" and "Papi", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player who is currently the senior director of hitting strategy coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB as a designated hitter and third baseman for Seattle from 1987 to 2004. He served as the Mariners' hitting coach from 2015 to 2018, and currently in 2024. He has also been a hitting advisor with the Mariners from 2019 through 2024.
1963Dick Powell, American actor, singer, and director (born 1904)[†]
Richard Ewing Powell was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip Marlowe on screen.
1963Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (born 1910)[†]
John Elmer Carson, known as Jack Carson, was a Canadian-born American film actor. Carson often played the role of comedic friend in films of the 1940s and 1950s, including The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with James Cagney and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) with Cary Grant. He appeared in such dramas as Mildred Pierce (1945), A Star is Born (1954), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He worked for RKO and MGM, but most of his notable work was for Warner Bros.
1963Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]