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May 21, 1963

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State Wins 85-Year Fight For Equal Port Rail Rates; Supreme Court Decision Opens the Way for Northern Roads to Cut Charges to Level in Effect in the South RATE DIFFERENCE ON RAILS IS ENDED

By Unknown Author

US Sup Ct, 4-4, upholds lower ct decision equalizing rates from Midwest to all Atlantic ports; opens way for northern rrs to drop rates to southern level; NYS wins 85-yr fight; NY Port Auth chmn Colt, Gov Rockefeller's office laud decision; ex-Gov Dewey, who represented rrs serving NY Port, comments

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SUPREME COURT LEGALIZES SIT-INS IN CITIES ENFORCING SEGREGATION; BIRMINGHAM'S SCHOOLS DROP 1,100; RULINGS FREE 31 Public Policy Is Held Decisive in Cases From 4 States HIGH COURT CURBS TRIALS OF SIT-INS

By Anthony Lewis Special To the New York Times

US Sup Ct rules that in cities making segregation a matter of pub policy, whether by ordinance or official ukase, Negroes may not be prosecuted for seeking service in privately owned stores; finds bias can be laid to state and therefore unconst

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Notable Births

Richard Appel

1963Richard Appel, American screenwriter and producer[โ€ ]

Richard James Appel is an American writer, producer and former attorney. Since 2012, he has served as an executive producer and co-showrunner of Family Guy on Fox. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. As an undergraduate, he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon.

Patrick Grant (composer)

1963Patrick Grant, American musician and producer[โ€ ]

Patrick Grant is a Detroit-born American composer living and working in New York City. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world musical styles that have found place in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media over three continents. Over the last three decades, his music has moved from post-punk and classically bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscapes involving many layers of acoustic and electronically amplified instruments. Throughout its evolution, his music has consistently contained a "...a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism...intricate cross-rhythms rarely let up..." Known as a producer and co-producer of live musical events, he has presented many concerts of his own and other composers, including a 2013 Guinness World Record-breaking performance of 175 electronic keyboards in NYC. He is the creator of International Strange Music Day and the pioneer of the electric guitar procession Tilted Axes.

1963David Lonsdale, English actor[โ€ ]

David Lonsdale is an English actor. He is best known for playing David Stockwell in the ITV period police drama series Heartbeat.

1963Dave Specter, American guitarist[โ€ ]

Dave Specter is an American Chicago blues and jazz guitarist.

1963Laurie Spina, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster[โ€ ]

Laurie Joseph Spina is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and rugby league commentator. In 1995, Spina was the inaugural captain of the North Queensland Cowboys.

Historical Context for May 21, 1963

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