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20 attend without incident
Saigon aide criticizes Kennedy statement
Yugoslav aide repts Yugoslavia to be given observer status in COMECON
bd will seek injunction if teachers strike; Cogen comments
Kennedy again confs with aides, briefs Pres; Govt ready to use Fed troops or marshals; state police in Birmingham from Tuskegee; Birmingham City Council urges Wallace to keep state forces out; Mobile educ officials agree to enroll 2 Negroes but defer attendance; Huntsville defers opening of desegregated classes
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 4, 1963, covering September 4, 1963.
Allan Sherman
Trini Lopez
Stevie Wonder
Peter| Paul & Mary
Soundtrack
1963Bobby Jarzombek, American drummer[†]
Bobby Jarzombek is an American musician of Polish and German ancestry who is currently the drummer for country music legend George Strait. Bobby also has been a drummer for Sebastian Bach, and progressive metal band Fates Warning. Guitarist Ron Jarzombek is his younger brother.
1963John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager[†]
John Vanbiesbrouck, nicknamed "the Beezer" and "JVB", is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player. As a goaltender, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Vanbiesbrouck played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1981 to 2002 for the New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. He began his career playing major junior hockey for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Following a successful season with the Greyhounds, he was drafted by the New York Rangers in the fourth round, 72nd overall, in the 1981 NHL Draft. After his junior career ended, he played for the Rangers minor league affiliate, the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League. Despite the team's near collapses due to financial concerns, Vanbiesbrouck led the Oilers to a league championship and shared the league's MVP honors.
1963Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
Sami Yaffa is a Finnish bass guitarist best known for his work in New York Dolls, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Pelle Miljoona Oy, Michael Monroe's bands, and Hanoi Rocks. He is currently the bassist for the Michael Monroe band and is also concentrating on his solo career.
1963Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (born 1886)[†]
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.
1963Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.[†]
Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, named Schaffhausen, was a scheduled international flight from Zurich to Rome, via Geneva. It crashed near Dürrenäsch, Aargau, on 4 September 1963, shortly after take-off, killing all 80 people on board.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]