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US officials deny statements in Ger are intended as attack on de Gaulle
Col S Wennerstrom held on charge of spying for USSR since '48; allegedly sold mil secrets of Sweden and other countries; Govt demands immediate recall of USSR Embassy aides Maj Gen Nikolsky and G P Baranovsky; Min Nilsson protests on their activities
Representative Mahon defends McNamara on TFX; Sen subcom continues hearings
Parliament passes bill abolishing S Katanga Prov and incorporating it in new prov of E Katanga; Tshombe will face election contest in new prov which includes tribes opposed to him
new basic realty rate to provide $1,219,049,253 toward balancing budget; remainder to come from $1,124,200,000 gen fund revenues and $739,979,019 from misc sources
1963Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist[†]
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had worked his way up the Komsomol apparatus, during the Soviet years, and started several businesses during the period of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s. In 1989, he became Chairman of the Board of Bank Menatep, which he founded. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, he accumulated considerable wealth by obtaining control of a number of Siberian oil fields unified under the name Yukos, one of the major companies to emerge from the privatization of state assets during the 1990s.
1963Mark McClellan, American economist and politician[†]
Mark Barr McClellan is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. McClellan served as commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under President George W. Bush from 2002 through 2004, and subsequently as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2004 through 2006.
1963Harriet Wheeler, English singer-songwriter[†]
The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in Bristol. The band's lineup consisted of lead vocalist Harriet Wheeler, guitarist David Gavurin, bassist Paul Brindley, and drummer Patrick Hannan. Percussionist Lindsay Jamieson was a member from 1990 until 1992, and played on the band's first two albums.
1963Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.[†]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]