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Repub Govs Assn urges immediate cuts for individuals and corps
Council of Higher Educ Insts authorizes study of ways for insts to exch courses by TV
liner America barred from sailing by dispute involving NMU charges of racial discrimination against engineering officer L Neurohr, MEBA member; illus; NMU calls for walkout on all US Lines vessels; line, AMMI, unions and impartial arbitrator T Kheel unable to settle dispute
Pope announces some qualified Cath laymen and legal experts will be permitted to attend council meetings, lr to Cardinal Tisserant; names Cardinals Dopfner, Suenens, Lercaro and Agagianian as new steering com; all but Agagianian are known as progressivists; Pope abolishes Secretariat for Extraordinary Affairs; replaces it by coordinating comm; other pions
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 11, 1963, covering September 15, 1963.
Allan Sherman
Trini Lopez
Soundtrack
Peter| Paul & Mary
Peter| Paul & Mary
1963Pete Myers, American basketball player and coach[†]
Peter Eddie Myers is an American former professional basketball player and a former assistant coach for the NBA team Chicago Bulls. He is most famous for having been Michael Jordan's replacement player during Jordan's stint in baseball.
1963Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian[†]
Stephen C. Spiteri is a Maltese military historian, author, lecturer and preservationist. His work mainly deals with the military history of Malta, particularly military architecture, and he is regarded as the "leading expert on Malta's fortifications."
1963Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.[†]
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]