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In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1964, covering September 13, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Dean Martin
The Beach Boys
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Peter| Paul & Mary
Louis Armstrong
The 4 Seasons
Barbra Streisand
Original Cast
1964Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author[â ]
Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
1964South Vietnamese Generals LĂąm VÄn PhĂĄt and DÆ°ÆĄng VÄn Äức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyá» n KhĂĄnh.[â ]
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor was the ground forces of the Vietnamese National Army, established on 8 December 1950, representing Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War against the communist Viet Minh rebels. At the ARVN's peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizens of South Vietnam were enlisted, composed of Regular Forces and the more voluntary Regional Forces and the Popular Force militias. It is estimated to have suffered 1,394,000 casualties during the Vietnam War.
1964Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in WaldbĂŒhne.[â ]
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
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ed holds pact could start new wave of pay rises
SALEM, N. H., Sept. 12—Roman Brother, the 9‐10 favorite, won the first running of the $144,820 New Hampshire Sweepstakes Classic today at Rockingham Park.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12—Willie Shoemaker piloted Mrs. Mary B. Hecht's Sadair past the pacesetting Umbrella Fella at the [eighth pole today for a two| length victory in the world's richest horse race, the $349,925 Arlington‐Washington Futurity. The race drew a field of 14 2‐year‐olds.
comment on issue and on what makes labor accords inflationary
PORTHCAWL, Wales, Sept. 12—The United States' top amateur women golfers swept the last three singles matches today to retain the Curtis Cup with 101, points to 71/2 for Britain.
TOKYO—Japan, now putting the finishing touches on her extensive prepara tions for the Olympic Games, is wondering just how many of the expected visitors to the big sports festival she will be able to accommodate. The two‐week event opens on Oct. 10.
AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 12—Ken Venturi took another step today toward golf's summit.
Candalita, the Darby Dan youngster, demonstrated again yesterday that she is a top campaigner at short distances by taking the 5102,470 Matron Stakes before 46,154 persons at Aqueduct.
TOKYO—Japan's tourist officials estimate that Tokyo will have 130,000 foreign visitors in the two‐week period, starting Oct. 10, in which the Olympic games will be held. This influx is expected to push to 500,000 the total number of visitors from abroad for all of 1964.
program discussed; to begin formally Oct 5; pilot projects set up in NYC and Boston