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June 12, 1963

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WATCH ON YEMEN APPROVED BY U.N.; Soviet Stands Aside and Council Votes Sanction Thant Orders Action

By Sam Pope Brewer Special To the New York Times

UN Security Council, 10-0, with USSR abstaining, approves sending 200-man observer team to Yemen; Amb Fedorenko says USSR abstained because resolution did not set time limit on operation; delegates surprised he did not try to establish principle that all such operations must be approved by Council; Thant sought to avoid showdown with USSR over competence of Assembly to order assessments for such operations; orders van Horn to proceed to Yemen with advance party; Stevenson, in Council debate, argued against time limit

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Notable Births

Philippe Bugalski

1963Philippe Bugalski, French racing driver (died 2012)[†]

Philippe Bugalski was a French rally driver.

Warwick Capper

1963Warwick Capper, Australian footballer, coach, and actor[†]

Warwick Richard Capper is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL), known before 1990 as the Victorian Football League (VFL). An accomplished full-forward, Capper kicked 388 goals over a 124-game career, finishing runner-up twice in the Coleman Medal with a peak of 103 goals in 1987. He was also famous for his high-flying spectacular marks, one of which earned him a Mark of the Year award in 1987.

Notable Deaths

Medgar Evers

1963Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (born 1925)[†]

Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, including the enforcement of voting rights when he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.

Historical Events

NAACP

1963NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.[†]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. The NAACP is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.

Cleopatra (1963 film)

1963The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.[†]

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor in the eponymous role, along with Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall and Martin Landau. It chronicles the struggles of the young queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Historical Context for June 12, 1963

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