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Mona Lisa arrives, NYC; hon dinner at Met Art Museum marred by absence of UN Sec Gen Thant and other UN officials and diplomats, reptdly over snub by French Amb Alphand
Pravda repts USSR offers trade and sympathy to GB
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Pres Kennedy feels bargaining has not been 'particularly responsible' and may result in death of 2-3 papers and prolongation of strike, news conf; doubts Taft-Hartley Act should be extended to strikes with serious effects on local areas; ITU pres E Brown, in NYC, optimistic on early settlement but says intervention by Pres or Fed officials would hinder it; came to NY at Wagner's request; ITU approves wage assessment overwhelmingly; Fed ct denies pressmen's suit for injunction requiring 5 papers to resume pub
annual rept; dirs propose 2-for-1 stock split of common shares and doubling of present divds; R T Perring named dir
1963Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician[†]
Mohammad Azharuddin is an Indian politician and a former cricketer who also served as the Indian national cricket team's captain. He was a right-handed middle order batter and an occasional medium fast bowler. He played 99 Test matches and 334 One Day Internationals for India. As a captain, he led the team to wins in the 1990-91 and 1995 Asia Cups and reached the semi-finals of the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was considered as one of the best ODI batsmen in the world and one of the greatest of his era. He captained India in three Cricket World Cups, the most by any Indian captain, all during the 1990s. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket.
1963George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (born 1908)[†]
George Dolenz was an American film actor born in Trieste, in the city's Slovene community.
1963The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.[†]
The prime minister of the Republic of Iraq is the head of government of Iraq and the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces. On 27 October 2022, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani became the incumbent prime minister.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]