On this day
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When churches, synagogues and other community institutions leave the central part of a city for the suburbs, the entire city may suffer.
Whitey Ford, who had been having something of a time catching up with his 18th pitching victory of the season for the New York Yankees, finally made it yesterday with a flourish.
"IT'S called 'The Group,' and it's about eight Vassar girls. It starts with the inauguration of Roosevelt, and ... [ends] at the inauguration of Eisenhower. It was conceived as a kind of mock-chronicle novel.
As the Sino-Soviet split widens, businessmen in the West and Japan are beginning to look with new interest at the teeming market of Communist China.
Rise in corp bond offerings, drop in stock offerings discussed; new stock issues, Jan-May, totaled $490 million as against $826 million in '62 period, bond issues $4 1/2 billion as against $3 billion, about 55% of bond issues sold privately rather than publicly; reasons analyzed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 21, 1963, covering August 25, 1963.
Stevie Wonder
Trini Lopez
Andy Williams
Peter| Paul & Mary
Allan Sherman
1963Miro Cerar, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia[†]
Miroslav Cerar Jr. is a Slovenian law professor and politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia, leading the 12th Government. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 13th Government. He is a full professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law.
1963Shock G, American rapper and producer (died 2021)[†]
Gregory Edward Jacobs, known professionally as Shock G and by his alter ego Humpty Hump, was an American rapper and musician who was best known as the lead vocalist of the hip hop group Digital Underground. He was responsible for Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance", 2Pac's breakthrough single "I Get Around", and co-producer of 2Pac's debut album 2Pacalypse Now.
1963Tiina Intelmann, Estonian lawyer and diplomat[†]
Tiina Intelmann is an Estonian diplomat; she was the Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations in New York from 2005 to 2011 and was the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court from December 2011 until December 2014. She then served as the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Liberia.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]