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US warns Asian Communists to leave their neighbors alone or face wor with US; publicizes decision in order to alert allies and Amers to hardening of its attitudes and commitment for support of whole region; seen also signaling to USSR that it cannot ignore drift towards war in Asia and must try to redeem Khrushchev pledges at June '61 conf with Pres Kennedy
Albertville reptdly captured by rebels; Eurs flee to Burundi; map; US Embassy, Leopoldville, says 2 civilian pilots decided to end flights, citing possible penalties under US law; 2 say they were under contract to Congo Govt; history of Katanga strife revd
says nation has had Govt which can get things done and knows where it is going for last 4 yrs and it is kind of Govt it will have for next 4 yrs, s, San Francisco
Southern reaction; politicians and businessmen generally attack bill, Negroes have little comment; Gov Wallace scores measure, Atlanta Mayor Allen, Mrs M W Evers, C Evers welcome it
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 1964, covering June 20, 1964.
Louis Armstrong
Barbra Streisand
Original Cast
The Beatles
Andy Williams
1964Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer[â ]
Pierfrancesco 'Frankie' Chili, is a former motorcycle racer who competed in the Superbike World Championship and the 250Â cc and 500Â cc classes in Grand Prix. In September 2020 he confirmed he was suffering from Parkinson's disease.
1964Silke Möller, German runner[â ]
Silke Möller is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. She was a member of the East German quartet that broke the world record in the 4 à 100 m relay at the World cup in Canberra on 6 October 1985. She and teammates Sabine Rieger, Marlies Göhr, and Ingrid Auerswald ran a time of 41.37 seconds, which stood as the world record until 2012. She is the 1987 World champion at both 100 metres and 200 metres.
1964A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people.[â ]
The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company publicity. It was used primarily as a cargo aircraft during World War II, with fold-down seating for military transport and some use in delivering paratroops. Mainly deployed by the United States Army Air Forces, it also served the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps, which called it R5C. The C-46 filled similar roles as its Douglas-built counterpart, the C-47 Skytrain, with some 3,200 C-46s produced to approximately 10,200 C-47s.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]