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Offers to help 5 Vietnam unity and throw off foreign influences, statement to Cabinet
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Wagner signs bill for referendum; overrides objections by Citizens Union, Salvation Army and NYC Prot Council spokesmen; Speaker Carlino says study of Brit system shows off-track betting would increase number of bookmakers; urges Fed and state study
Randolph, McKissick say nationwide campaign will be conducted on behalf of civil rights bill, ss, Socialist party civil rights conf; King says rights leaders urge mass lr-writing campaign in support of bill; King, Sens Thurmond and Javits differ on effect of march on Cong, Brit TV int; Sen Hart doubts effect; UN diplomats hail march as presenting favorable image of US abroad; 1,600 picket Chicago Sun-Times protesting editorial questioning value of march
50 arrive, NYC, from Madrid; illus; 10 subpoenaed for HR com probe Sept 12; 45 refuse to present passports after 4 have them invalidated; instead get lr stating their passports are tentatively withdrawn; Emergency Civil Liberties Com dir Foreman says change of Govt procedure enables 45 to use passports, that they would have to be taken to ct to prove travel ban violations; 4 of group still in Spain; students, in joint statement, say they violated no law, that trip was in best interest of all Amers; comment on conditions in Cuba; T Nelson lr seeking sponsor for students rally says Cubans have no hostility to Amers, that visitors do not need State Dept protection; names of students listed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 1963, covering August 30, 1963.
Allan Sherman
Trini Lopez
Stevie Wonder
Peter| Paul & Mary
Andy Williams
1963Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)[â ]
David Murray Brockie was a Canadian-American musician. He was the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Gwar, in which he performed as Oderus Urungus, and he was a bassist and lead singer in the bands Death Piggy, X-Cops, and the Dave Brockie Experience (DBX). He additionally played the Oderus Urungus character in the comedy horror TV sitcom Holliston. Brockie died of a heroin overdose in 2014.
1963Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer[â ]
Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield (2002â2008), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002, and as Ben Grimm / The Thing in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).
1963Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (died 2017)[â ]
Sabine Oberhauser was an Austrian physician and politician. At the time of her death, she was Austria's Minister for Health and Minister for Women.
1963Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver[â ]
Philip Lewis Mills is a Welsh rallying co-driver. He was winner of the 2003 World Rally Championship (WRC), as co-driver to Petter Solberg.
1963Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (born 1911)[â ]
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.
1963The MoscowâWashington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.[â ]
The MoscowâWashington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation. This hotline was established in 1963 and links the Pentagon with the Kremlin. Although in popular culture it is known as the "red telephone", the hotline was never a telephone line, and no red phones were used. The first implementation used Teletype equipment, and shifted to fax machines in 1986. Since 2008, the MoscowâWashington hotline has been a secure computer link over which messages are exchanged by a secure form of email.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[â ]