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maneuver, Exercise Team Work, intensively surveyed by USSR planes, surface ships and submarines; illus; Brit Rear Adm Law and US Vice Adm Masterson comment; Masterson says fighters from carrier Independence intercepted 2 USSR longrange bombers off Iceland, escorted them out of area
Rusk says at least 1 and perhaps 3 vessels were sunk in incident, news conf, San Francisco; findings based on radar observations; some credence given to USSR rept; concern noted in some qrs over possible security breach in light of USSR rept
Goldwater believes field comdrs already have contingency power to use arms without specific Pres order; holds that existence of such plans has effectuated policies he has advocated; stand based partly on articles in US News & World Rept and Time magazine; Time says NATO comdr has authority under Johnson and did under Eisenhower and Kennedy
HR, 208-103, passes $998,623,374 bill, $371,845,000 below Johnson request
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 1964, covering September 23, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Dean Martin
Peter| Paul & Mary
The Beach Boys
1964Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer and manager[†]
Clayton Graham Blackmore is a Welsh former international footballer. He was a combative player known for his attacking free kicks and a utility player who excelled in defence, but could play equally well in midfield.
1964Josefa Idem, German-born Italian kayaker[†]
Josefa Idem married Guerrini is an Italian canoe sprinter turned politician. Competing in eight Summer Olympics, she has five medals. Winning 35 international medals during her career, Idem was the first Italian woman to win World Championships and Olympic medals in canoe sprint. At the 2009 world championships, she became the oldest medalist in the history of the world championships.
1964Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer-songwriter[†]
Koshi Inaba is a Japanese singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan. He also has a successful solo career, with six studio albums and five singles topping the Japanese music charts. Inaba collaborated with Slash on the latter's 2009 single "Sahara", and with Stevie Salas on the albums Chubby Groove (2017) and Maximum Huavo (2020).
1964Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and coach[†]
Larry Brett Krystkowiak is a retired American professional basketball player, and former head coach of the Utah Utes men's basketball team.
1964Katie Mitchell, English director and producer[†]
Katrina Jane Mitchell is an English theatre director.
1964Julian Parkhill, English biologist and academic[†]
Julian Parkhill is Professor of Bacterial Evolution in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He previously served as head of pathogen genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
1964Bill Phillips, American businessman and author[†]
William Nathaniel Phillips is an American entrepreneur and author. He wrote Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength with Mike D'Orso. He is also the author of Eating for Life and the founder and former editor in chief of Muscle Media magazine and the former CEO of EAS, a performance nutritional supplement company. Other books that Phillips has authored are Anabolic Reference Guide, The Natural Supplement Review, and Transformation: The Mindset You Need. The Body You Want. The Life You Deserve. Phillips made a promotional movie called Body of Work which was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada and chronicled the first EAS Challenge.
1964Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.[†]
Typhoon Wilda was an intense typhoon that was tied for lowest central pressure of any typhoon in 1964, along with Typhoon Sally. As the twenty-fourth named storm of the season, it origins can be traced back to when it was as a tropical storm east-southeast of Guam on September 16. Wilda moved northwestward for multiple days. it was identified as a tropical storm by Joint Typhoon Warning Center on September 19, strengthening into a typhoon that day. It reached its peak intensity over the Philippine Sea. Wilda slightly weakened following peak strength before curving northward and making landfall on September 24. The storm would eventually emerge into the Sea of Japan and curve northeast. Wilda made a final landfall on September 25 as a tropical storm, thereafter, departing Japan and quickly moving towards the central Aleutian Islands as a powerful extratropical cyclone, dissipating on September 27.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]