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STATELINE, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 10--Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and sheriff's squads pressed a search in the snow-covered mountains around Lake Tahoe last night's for Frank Sinatra Jr. and two men reported to have abducted the son of the motion picture star.
6,000 Studebaker workers in S Bend plants to be laid off as co decides to abandon US car production
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9--A Federal Bureau of Investigation report went to a special Presidential commission today and named Lee H. Oswald as the assassin of President Kennedy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9--The House passed the compromise $3.6 billion foreign aid authorization today. The bill goes tomorrow to the Senate, where a stormier reception is expected.
miners, led by Vice Pres Lechin, demand union leaders release; fears for safety of hostages rise; Govt silent; had rejected earlier demand for exch; Amers rept they are well; more troops sent to Catavi; some observers hold Lechin has begun open rebellion against Paz; Canada, Netherlands and W Ger demand release of their natls, begin talks with US
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 1963, covering December 10, 1963.
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
Peter| Paul & Mary
Barbra Streisand
Peter| Paul & Mary
Trini Lopez
1963Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player[†]
Jahangir Khan is a former professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open title six times, and the British Open title ten times (1982–1991). He is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time, and the greatest sportsman in Pakistan history. From 1981 to 1986, Khan was unbeaten and won 555 consecutive matches during that time – the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sport as recorded by Guinness World Records.
1963K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (born 1894)[†]
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, popularly known as Sardar K. M. Panikkar, was an Indian statesman and diplomat. He was also a professor, newspaper editor, historian and novelist. He was born in Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and at the University of Oxford.
1963Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.[†]
Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. It is located in the Indian Ocean, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island. The capital is Zanzibar City, located on the island of Unguja. Its historic centre, Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site.
1963An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.[†]
The 1963 Aden airport attack was an incident which saw the beginning of the Aden Emergency. Arab nationalists of the NLF made a grenade attack against the British High Commissioner, Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, killing one person and injuring 50.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]