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rebels and Govt troops battle, Stanleyville; evacuation of whites and UN personnel begins; Gen Mobutu sends 300 former Kalanga gendarmes from Elisabethville; map
Johnson orders retaliation against gunboats and 'certain supporting facilities in N Vietnam, TV s; says attacks take place as he speaks; terms Vietnamese attacks 'open aggression on high seas'; calls US response 'ltd and fitting'; orders Rusk to inform all nations of US stand; says Amb Stevenson will raise issue in UN Security Council; says he informed and got backing of Goldwater; says Cong leaders pledge speedy passage of resolution affirming US desire for peace in SE Asia; confs with Cong leaders of both parties; gets R M Nixon support; State Dept says attacks are being made with conventional weapons with aim of destroying N Vietnam gunboat capability; Adm repts substantial mil units on way to area
US Defense Dept repts N Vietnam PT boats attacked 2 destroyers, Tonkin Gulf; repts ships and planes drove them off, sank at least 2 with no US casualties or damage; State Dept makes pub stern protest to N Vietnam over attack on Maddox, 1st US diplomatic message to N Vietnam
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1964, covering August 5, 1964.
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Louis Armstrong
Original Cast
Barbra Streisand
1964Rory Morrison, English journalist (died 2013)[â ]
Rory David Morrison was a newsreader and continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4.
1964Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (died 2012)[â ]
Adam Nathaniel Yauch, also known by the stage name MCA, was an American rapper, bassist, filmmaker and a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys. Besides his musical work, he also directed many of the band's music videos and did much of their promotional photography, often using the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér for such work.
1964Moa Martinson, Swedish author (born 1890)[â ]
Moa Martinson was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of women. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty, politics, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working-class woman.
1964Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886)[â ]
Arthur Howey Ross was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puck up the ice rather than pass it to a forward. He was on Stanley Cup championship teams twice in a playing career that lasted thirteen seasons; in January 1907 with the Kenora Thistles and 1908 with the Montreal Wanderers. Like other players of the time, Ross played for several different teams and leagues, and is noted for his time with the Wanderers while they were members of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and its successor, the National Hockey League (NHL). In 1911, he led one of the first organized player strikes over increased pay. When the Wanderers' home arena burned down in January 1918, the team ceased operations and Ross retired as a player.
1964Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USSÂ Ticonderoga and USSÂ Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.[â ]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]