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January 30, 1964

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School Board Outlines a 3‐Year Plan For Racial Balance and Full Sessions

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Educ Bd outlines 3-yr program to improve balance of some 30 of 165 predominantly Negro and Puerto Rican pss and provide full-day sessions; program would start in Sept; major features include creating 'community zones' for pairing grade schools (admitted euphemism for Princeton Plan), special efforts to improve educ of minority groups, and transfer of Negro and Puerto Rican pupils from overcrowded to underutilized pss in white neighborhoods; changes in pattern of feeding students into jr hss also set; 10 of 31 now predominantly Negro or Puerto Rican schools affected; no pupil would travel over 4 mi or 45 mins from home; at elementary level distance between paired schools would not exceed 1 1/2 mi or 30 mins travel time; plan precludes pairing in central Harlem; bd announces plan on taped TV program aimed at spurring pub understanding; admits system cannot produce balance in all pss without wholesale shifts of school populations because of de facto housing segregation; Donovan stresses plan is subject to change with new conditions; UFT Delegate Assembly voter, to act it bd punishes teachers remaining out of school during boycott

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SPRING FASHIONS FROM DIOR Exclusive report directly from Paris on explosive new House of Dior styles. Exciting Photoa in Today's World‐Telegram‐Advt.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 29, 1964, covering January 30, 1964.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Singing Nun by The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)

    The Singing Nun

    The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)

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    13
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    Album cover for In The Wind by Peter| Paul & Mary

    In The Wind

    Peter| Paul & Mary

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    15
  3. 3
    Album cover for Fun In Acapulco by Elvis Presley

    Fun In Acapulco

    Elvis Presley

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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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    Album cover for Little Deuce Coupe by The Beach Boys

    Little Deuce Coupe

    The Beach Boys

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    13

Notable Births

Otis Smith (basketball)

1964Otis Smith, American basketball player, coach, and manager[†]

Otis Fitzgerald Smith is an American former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Jacksonville Dolphins.

Historical Events

Nguyễn Khánh

1964In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.[†]

Nguyễn Khánh was a South Vietnamese military dictator and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a military junta from January 1964 until February 1965. He was involved in or against many coup attempts, failed and successful, from 1960 until his defeat and exile from South Vietnam in 1965. Khánh lived out his later years with his family in exile in the United States. He died in 2013 in San Jose, California, at age 85.

Historical Context for January 30, 1964

In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]