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November 2, 1963

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Headlines from November 2, 1963

PALACE BESIEGED; Army, Air Force and Marines Combine to Oust President Anti-Red Drive Promised Discrimination Was Issue REBELS TAKE OVER AFTER HARD FIGHT Victory Follows a l7-Hour Battle--U.S. Is Assured of Junta's Backing Kennedy Keeps Watch Coup Is Second Attempt Martial Law Declared

By Hedrick Smith Special To the New York Times

Ngo Govt falls in swift mil coup d'etat; insurgents rept Pres Ngo and Ngo Disk Nhu committed suicide; say they surrendered after attack on palace, escaped, sought asylum in ch and were recaptured; US confirms their surrender and arrest; precision of coup detailed; insurgents reptd led by com of 14 gens with Gen Duong Van Minh as key figure; decree martial law, order curfew, release arrested Buddhists, teachers and students; pledge to intensify war against Vietcong; reptdly assure Lodge they will restore civilian Govt; appeal for pub cooperation; Special Forces chief Le Quang Tung and other mil leaders of Ngo regime arrested; map of fighting around palace; aerial view of Saigon shows major captured installations

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1963, covering November 2, 1963.

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    Album cover for In The Wind by Peter| Paul & Mary

    In The Wind

    Peter| Paul & Mary

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    12
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
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    Album cover for Peter; Paul And Mary by Peter| Paul & Mary

    Peter; Paul And Mary

    Peter| Paul & Mary

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    1
    Peak
    1
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    12
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    Album cover for Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul by Ray Charles

    Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul

    Ray Charles

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    6
    Peak
    2
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    10
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    Album cover for Golden Records Vol. 3 by Elvis Presley

    Golden Records Vol. 3

    Elvis Presley

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    4
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    8
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    Album cover for The Second Barbra Streisand Album by Barbra Streisand

    The Second Barbra Streisand Album

    Barbra Streisand

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
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    8

Notable Births

Bobby Dall

1963Bobby Dall, American bass player[†]

Robert Harry Kuykendall, also known as Bobby Dall, is an American musician best known as the bassist for the rock band Poison.

Brian Kemp

1963Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia[†]

Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving as the 83rd governor of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Kemp served as the state's 27th Secretary of State from 2010 to 2018, and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007. He is the first Republican since Reconstruction to be elected governor of Georgia who was not a former Democrat.

Borut Pahor

1963Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia[†]

Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who served as President of Slovenia from 2012 to 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012.

Notable Deaths

Ngo Dinh Diem

19631963 South Vietnamese coup[†]

Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.

Ngô Đình Nhu

19631963 South Vietnamese coup[†]

James (Giacôbê) Ngô Đình Nhu was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and State Counsellor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held no formal executive position, he wielded immense unofficial power, exercising personal command of both the ARVN Special Forces and the Cần Lao political apparatus which served as the regime's de facto secret police.

Historical Events

South Vietnam

1963South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.[†]

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon, before becoming a republic in 1955, when the southern half of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam. South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957. It was succeeded by the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. In 1976, the Republic of South Vietnam and North Vietnam merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Historical Context for November 2, 1963

In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]