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Labor Dept repts employment rose 1,360,000 to 69,877,000, Apr, largest postwar gain except for Apr '60; unemployment down 372,000 to 3,921,000; unemployment rate remains at 5.4%
Labor party wins landslide victory in munic elections, gaining 254 seats in Town Councils at expense of all other parties; Conservatives lose 132, Liberals 59, inds 64; vote was last major test before scheduled gen elections; G Brown hails it as foreshadowing Labor landslide then
Malcolm X, US black nationalist leader, makes pilgrimage to Mecca; claims new insights on race relations as result
high US authorities hold they would welcome proposals for fundamental change's, in NATO, but Under Sec Ball, in Georgetown U s, warns against 'tinkering,'
GB increasingly committed to indecisive war in forbidding country; soldiers illus; significance of Aden to Brit interests in Mideast discussed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1964, covering May 8, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Original Cast
The Dave Clark Five
Al Hirt
1964Melissa Gilbert, American actress and director[†]
Melissa Ellen Gilbert is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second-oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls on the NBC series Little House on the Prairie. During the run of Little House, Gilbert appeared in several television films, including The Diary of Anne Frank (1980), and The Miracle Worker (1979). As an adult, she continued her career mainly in television films. From 2009 to 2010, Gilbert appeared as Caroline "Ma" Ingalls in the touring production of Little House on the Prairie, the Musical. In 2012, she was a contestant on season fourteen of the reality dance competition show Dancing with the Stars on ABC.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]