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Negroes riot in Jersey City, hurl debris at police, loot stores; 30, including 10 policemen, hurt; trouble began when Negroes marched on station house protesting arrest of Negro woman; Negro leaders toured sts urging calm; Mayor Whelan links outbreak to riots in NYC and other cities
Communist China backs USSR call for 14-nation conf, urges USSR not to withdraw as conf co-chmn
N Vietnam charges US used Laotian bases for air attack on N Vietnam border post and village
Eastern Orthodox Ch reptdly will establish permanent mission in Rome to restore contacts with RC Ch
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 1964, covering August 3, 1964.
The Beatles
Original Cast
Louis Armstrong
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Barbra Streisand
1964Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player (died 2007)[†]
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His record sales across the world earned him the Best Selling African Musician prize at the 1996 World Music Awards. In his lyrics, Dube discussed issues affecting South Africans and Africans in general to a global audience. He recorded 22 albums in a 25-year period and was Africa's best-selling reggae artist of all time. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007.
1964Ralph Knibbs, British rugby union player[†]
Ralph Andrew Knibbs is an English former rugby union player who played for Bristol.
1964Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach[†]
Nathaniel McMillan is an American basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He coached the Seattle SuperSonics from 2000 to 2005, the Portland Trail Blazers from 2005 to 2012, and the Indiana Pacers from 2016 to 2020. Nate served as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks in 2021, before becoming the head coach from 2021 to 2023. He spent his entire 12-year NBA playing career with the SuperSonics, then served as an assistant coach for one-and-a-half years and as head coach for almost five years. His long tenure as a player and coach in Seattle earned him the nickname "Mr. Sonic".
1964Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach[†]
Kevin Warren Sumlin is an American football coach who is the associate head coach, co-offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach for the University of Maryland. Sumlin served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2008 to 2011, Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2017, and at the University of Arizona from 2018 to 2020.
1964Abhisit Vejjajiva, English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand[†]
Abhisit Vejjajiva is a Thai politician who was the 27th prime minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. He was the leader of the Democrat Party from 2005 until he resigned following the party's weak performance in the 2019 election. As leader of the second largest party in the House of Representatives, he was also leader of the opposition – a position he held from 2005 to 2008 and again after his premiership until his party's en masse resignation from the House on 8 December 2013. Abhisit is the last prime minister neither coming from the military nor being related to the Shinawatra family to date.
1964Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)[†]
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]