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S Vietnamese hit underground Vietcong base, NW of Saigon; 3 aircraft downed; key Vietcong leader reptd captured; S Vietnamese kill 36 Vietcong, Quangnam Prov; map
After more than a decade of dreaming by engineers and after five years of work that began in the depths of the Narrows and soared 693 feet into the sky, the Verrazano‐Narrows Bridge will open today.
Mkt slumps as pound weakens
Pres Johnson promises to establish nation's 1st Jobs Corps training center in San Marcos, Tex, where he attended SW Tex State Coll as self-help student; Dir Shriver to activate plans
Rockefeller asks Johnson to halt closing of facilities in NY Met Area; asks conf; Wagner doubts announcement of closings was delayed until after election for pol purposes
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 18, 1964, covering November 21, 1964.
Barbra Streisand
Dean Martin
The Beatles
Nancy Wilson
The Beach Boys
1964Shane Douglas, American wrestler and manager[â ]
Troy Allan Martin is an American professional wrestler, manager, and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
1964Olden Polynice, Haitian-American basketball player and coach[â ]
Olden Polynice is a Haitian former professional basketball player. He played center for the Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, and Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1964Liza Tarbuck, English actress, television and radio presenter[â ]
Liza Tarbuck is an English actress, comedian, and television and radio presenter.
1964Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (born 1905)[â ]
Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social housing practice and law in the United States. Wurster's influential book Modern Housing was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1934 and is regarded as a classic in the field.
1964The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.[â ]
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows. The double-deck bridge carries 13 lanes of Interstate 278: seven on the upper level and six on the lower level. The span is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, who in 1524 was the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River.
1964Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.[â ]
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met each autumn from 1962 to 1965 in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for sessions of 8 and 12 weeks.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]