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Sec Wirtz lr on 2 eds on rr work rules dispute
Gov Rockefeller to conf with labor and indus officials on speeding state projects to provide more jobs
ABC plans film showing Pres and Atty Gen Kennedy discussing Gov Wallace in connection with Ala U desegregation
Sen votes Fulbright bill barring bldg of embassy chancelleries or offices in areas zoned for residential use
seizes US Embassy bldg, Havana, in reprisal
1963Denis Coderre, Canadian politician, 44th Mayor of Montreal[†]
Denis Coderre is a Canadian politician who served as the 44th mayor of Montreal from 2013 to 2017.
1963Julian Hodgson, Welsh chess player[†]
Julian Michael "Jules" Hodgson is a British chess player, grandmaster, and former British chess champion.
1963Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (born 1877)[†]
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for a short duration. This therapy is used in an attempt to treat certain mental disorders, and may be useful when other possible treatments have not, or cannot, cure the person of their mental disorder.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]