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Williams testifies on Baker possible conflict of interests, Rules Com closed session; Sgt Rometsch says wife knew Baker when she worked as model; she denies intimacies with men when in Washington and that she met influential pol personalities
NY,NH&H trustees agree to study feasibility of forming New Eng system with B&M and Boston & Albany RRs; assent only after NY Central, PRR and N&W agree to join study; stress importance of maintaining service in New Eng
assn hon Chief Justice Warren and Appellate Div Presiding Justice Botein; assn bldg picketed by group demaning Warren impeachment
Western diplomats fear internatl arms race in area arising from Algerian-Moroccan border conflict with shipments of USSR arms from Cuba and arrival of UAR troops in Algeria
ROME, Oct. 29 The Ecumenical Council decided by the narrow margin of 40 votes today to put discussion of the Virgin Mary within a chapter in the general theme "On the Nature of the Church" rather than have a separate theme on the subject.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1963, covering October 30, 1963.
Peter| Paul & Mary
Peter| Paul & Mary
Ray Charles
Elvis Presley
Barbra Streisand
1963Michael Beach, American actor and producer[†]
Michael Anthony Beach is an American actor. He has appeared in the films Lean on Me (1989), One False Move (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Waiting to Exhale (1995), A Family Thing (1996), Soul Food (1997), Aquaman (2018), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Saw X (2023). On television, he played Al Boulet on the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2005, Beach was a regular cast member in another NBC drama series, Third Watch, as Monte Parker, and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy.
1963Rebecca Heineman, American video game designer and programmer[†]
Rebecca Ann Heineman is an American video game designer and programmer. Heineman was a founding member of video game companies Interplay Productions, Logicware, Contraband Entertainment, and Olde Sküül. She has been chief executive officer for Olde Sküül since 2013.
1963Andrew Solomon, American-English journalist and author[†]
Andrew Solomon is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics.
1963Mike Veletta, Australian cricketer and coach[†]
Michael Robert John Veletta is a former Australian cricketer.
1963Kristina Wagner, American actress[†]
Kristina Wagner is an American actress. She is sometimes credited by the name Kristina Malandro. She is best known for her role as Felicia Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She also briefly had a small role on the ABC series Hotel in the late 1980s.
1963U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1908)[†]
Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar, also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician, independence activist, and a patriarch of Thevar community. He was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency. The birth anniversary of Muthuramalinga Thevar on October 30 is celebrated annually by the Thevar community in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu as Thevar Jayanthi.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]