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In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]
1963Rick Allen, English musician[†]
Richard John Cyril Allen is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in January 1985 and continued to play with the band, which went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as "The Thunder God" by fans. He is ranked No. 7 on the UK website Gigwise in The Greatest Drummers of All Time list.
1963Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman[†]
Nita Mukesh Ambani is an Indian businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and a director of Reliance Industries. She is married to Reliance Industries Limited's chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani. With a family fortune estimated in excess of US$117.8 billion, the Ambani's are among the richest in the world. She is also an art collector and the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Mumbai Indians.
1963Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager[†]
Leslie Mark Hughes is a Welsh football coach and former player who is the head coach of National League club Carlisle United.
1963Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
William Kenneth Alphin, best known by his stage name Big Kenny, is an American country music singer. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich, who recorded four studio albums and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
1963The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.[†]
The Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and formerly known as the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory, is an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
1963The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.[†]
In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of Vietnam were deposed by a group of CIA-backed Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with Diệm's handling of the Buddhist crisis and the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong threat to South Vietnam. In South Vietnam, the coup was referred to as Cách mạng 1-11-63.
Kennedy assures W Ger that no combat forces will be withdrawn, news conf; effort seen to encourage Erhard Govt in foreign policy course favorable to US; US domestic demands for cuts and recent moves suggesting such plans revd
HR subcom holds defenses weakened by shutdown of 4 SAGE centers and 17 long-range radar facilities over USAF objections; charges that McNamara misinformed Pres Kennedy about how changes were to be carried out; says objections were ruled on by Defense Dept temporary employe; Repr Vinson sends rept to McNamara
Pres Kennedy, in reply to query about Sen Goldwater charges of Adm 'blackouts, distortions' etc, sees it 'unwise at this time' to answer because Goldwater will make many more serious charges later, news conf
Castro charges CIA operates raider ship called Rex based in West Palm Beach and flying Nicaraguan flag, radio-TV s; says 2 small boats from Rex and several CIA agents were captured; charges stepped-up CIA activity against Cuba; Rex illus; West Palm Beach port dir says he knows nothing of activities of Rex, which returned to port Oct 28; oil exec J A Belcher, Rex owner, denies raids by ship; says it was leased to Collins Radio Co for research
UN Assembly com, 97-1, approves resolution urging all nations adhere to ltd nuclear test ban and asking 18-nation disarmament com to continue effort for total ban; Albania opposed; France, Cuba and Central African Repub abstain; harmony in com since ltd test ban treaty signing broken by US-USSR clash over W Ger
survey on attitude of Eastern US liberal arts insts toward students receiving visitors of opposite sex in their rooms
Pres Kennedy says schools fail to train youth well enough for jobs in soc moving toward automation, press conf
'62 dead, hundred, hurt in explosion during Ice Capades show, Indianapolis; illus
Kennedy doubts USSR has withdrawn from space race, news conf; answers those who would accept Khrushchev's recent statement as excuse to end lunar race; remarks reflect growing NASA skepticism over Khrushchev's statement
Appeals Ct upholds NYC right to conduct off-track betting referendum, Young and Kupferman suits; Empire State C of C opposes betting plan; W Reade-Sterling Group offers plan for betting in auditoriums on closed-circuit TV
Thant says UN mil mission will stay to Jan 4 because Saudi Arabia agrees to share costs with UAR, supplementary rept to Security Council
Morocco orders 350 UAR teachers to halt work in wake of break with UAR over its 'hostile' conduct in Morocco-Algeria border dispute