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Council adopts amended resolution calling on UN members to ban all arms shipments
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-- Haiti announced through her embassy today that an invasion force had been dispersed in the northeastern part of the country.
US Adm believes Ngo may be overthrown by own mil and civil bureaucracy in 3 or 4 mos it he fails to settle crisis; Buddhist Vice Pres Nguyen Ngoc Tho starts new peace move in wake of police raid on Saigon suburb, Tan Son Hoa, in which 365 Buddhist reptdly were arrested
studies proposed cut in capital gains taxes; votes plan requiring heirs to pay bigger capital gains taxes on sale of inherited assets
US officials hope to avoid tariff war but expect to have to raise tariffs; aim seen to have impact fall 40% on W Ger since 40% of US imports from EEC come from there; French Min Giscard d'Estaing regrets dispute, hints at counter-retaliation; notes EEC decision on poultry tariff was unanimous; Brit regret US move but note offer to compensate for losses; Itals see regression in econ cooperation
1963Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter[ā ]
Hur Jin-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
1963Ron Karkovice, American baseball player and manager[ā ]
Ronald Joseph Karkovice is an American former professional baseball catcher.
1963Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer (died 2024)[ā ]
Emiko Shinohara , known professionally as Emi Shinohara , was a Japanese voice actress from Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of her death, she was affiliated with 81 Produce. She was best known for voicing Sailor Jupiter in the first anime adaptation of Sailor Moon, Kaho Mizuki in Cardcaptor Sakura and its sequel Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto: Shippuden. She was married to tokusatsu actor Hiroshi Watari.
1963Rika Fukami, Japanese voice actress and singer[ā ]
Rika Fukami is a Japanese voice actress and narrator. Born in Kyoto Prefecture and raised in Chichibu, Saitama, she was originally a competitor at the NHK Cup National High School Broadcasting Contest while studying at Saitama Prefectural Chichibu High School, before joining Dojinsha Productions and debuting as a voice actress in Tokimeki Tonight. Since then, she has voiced Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon series, as well as Fran in Final Fantasy XII, Carmen la Bailaora in Ashita no Nadja, Schaffe in Ninja Senshi Tobikage and Daiko Hayami in New Cutie Honey.
1963Jon Turteltaub, American director and producer[ā ]
Jonathan Charles Turteltaub is an American film director, writer and producer.
1963Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager[ā ]
Stephen Walkom currently serves as vice president and director of officiating for the National Hockey League (NHL). This is his second stint in that position, having previously served from 2005 to 2009. From 1990 to 2004, and from 2009 to 2013, he worked as an on-ice referee for the league.
1963Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal Ā£2.6Ā million in bank notes.[ā ]
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of Ā£2.61 million from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
1963The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.[ā ]
The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) was a militant socialist organisation that fought against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 1963. ZANU split in 1975 into wings loyal to Robert Mugabe and Ndabaningi Sithole, later respectively called ZANUāPF and ZANUāNdonga. These two sub-divisions ran separately at the 1980 general election, where ZANUāPF has been in power ever since, and ZANUāNdonga a minor opposition party.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[ā ]