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March 19, 1964

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U.S. MAY ABANDON EFFORT TO DETER LATIN DICTATORS; Mann Is Said to Be Against Trying to Separate ‘Good Guys and Bad Guys’; REDS WOULD BE FOUGHT; Report That Kennedy Policy Faces Reversal Dismays 2 Democratic Senators

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Asst Sec Mann reptdly says, in s to closed session of US envoys conf, that Adm may curtail efforts to punish rightist and mil dictators; reptdly stresses US goals, including non-intervention in internal pol; reptdly cites past failures to impose democracy and holds distinctions between Latin-Amer dems and dictators unclear; policy seen as radical shift from Kennedy Adm use of Alliance to promote dem regimes; Sens Humphrey and Morse, at later session of envoys, insist US must aid democracy as part of Alliance; Mann s reptdly did not mention Alliance

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1964, covering March 19, 1964.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Meet The Beatles! by The Beatles

    Meet The Beatles!

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  2. 2
    Album cover for Introducing...The Beatles by The Beatles

    Introducing...The Beatles

    The Beatles

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Honey In The Horn by Al Hirt

    Honey In The Horn

    Al Hirt

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    27
  4. 4
    Album cover for Hello; Dolly! by Original Cast

    Hello; Dolly!

    Original Cast

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    5
  5. 5
    Album cover for The Third Album by Barbra Streisand

    The Third Album

    Barbra Streisand

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    4

Notable Births

Yoko Kanno

1964Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer[†]

Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions.

Historical Events

João Goulart

1964Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.[†]

João Belchior Marques Goulart, commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964. He was considered the last left-wing president of Brazil until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003.

Historical Context for March 19, 1964

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