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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-- The backers of a major program to assist the nation's unemployed youth are confident that it will be enacted at this session of Congress.
MP H Wilson offers censure motion over EEC membership issue
3d Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conf urges econ boycott of Portugal because of policies
GB to accept USSR oil deal; move seen raising indus and strategic objections; USSR proposal is for maximum 2 million tons of oil to be exported to GB yrly
CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 11 --The Navy fired its new Polaris A-3 missile, its most powerful submarine weapon, today on a successful flight 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
1963John Michael Higgins, American actor and comedian[†]
John Michael Higgins is an American actor, comedian and game show host whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone Varrick in The Legend of Korra and Mini-Max in Big Hero 6: The Series. He also starred in the NBC sitcom Great News as Chuck Pierce for two seasons. From 2018 to 2022, he hosted the game show America Says, which earned him a 2019 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Game Show Host. Higgins attended Amherst College, graduating in 1985 and was a member of the a cappella group the Zumbyes. Starting on April 17, 2023, he began hosting the new version of the game show Split Second on Game Show Network.
1963Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.[†]
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch and Missouri's tallest accessible structure. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States and officially dedicated to "the American people", the Arch, commonly referred to as "The Gateway to the West", is a National Historic Landmark in Gateway Arch National Park and has become a popular tourist destination, as well as an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis.
1963Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes into the Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.[†]
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 was a scheduled passenger flight operated on February 12, 1963, that broke up in midair and crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport in a severe thunderstorm. The plane was destined for Portland, Oregon, via Chicago, Spokane, and Seattle.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]