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April 16, 1963

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WAGNER SUBMITS 3-BILLION BUDGET; DEFENDS TAX RISE; PROTESTS MOUNT Hearing on Thursday Schools to Seek Higher Allotment. School Aides Protest Wagner Submits Record Budget and Defends Proposals for Increases in Taxes PROTESTS MOUNT AS HEARING NEARS Could be Election Issue Public Hearings Set

By Clayton Knowles

exec budget asks $797,488,071 for fiscal '64; school authorities and teachers unions hold rise is only $37 million; Educ Bd pres Rubin says amt is $46 million below bd request; UFT pres Cogen attacks budget

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Notable Births

Saleem Malik

1963Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer[†]

Saleem Malik is a Pakistani former cricketer. He played for the Pakistan national cricket team between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the side. He was a wristy, right-handed middle-order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His off break bowling was also quite effective. Despite playing more than 100 Tests he would go down in cricket history as the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned for match fixing around the start of the 21st century. Saleem is the brother-in-law of former teammate Ijaz Ahmed. He was a part of the Pakistani squad which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Jimmy Osmond

1963Jimmy Osmond, American singer[†]

James Arthur Osmond is an American singer and businessman. He is the youngest member of the sibling musical group the Osmonds. As a solo artist, Osmond has accumulated six gold records, one platinum record, and two gold albums.

Historical Events

Martin Luther King Jr.

1963U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.[†]

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.

Historical Context for April 16, 1963

In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]