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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Fourteen leading businessmen spent three hours and five minutes with President Johnson today and came away convinced they had a “wise” friend in the White House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 —President Johnson announced today that the United States had decided to proceed with plans to build a new sea‐level canal in Central America or northern Colombia linking the Atlantic and the Pacific.
NEWARK, Dec. 18 — An American electronics engineer and a Soviet citizen were sentenced to long prison terms in Federal Court today for conspiring to give United States defense secrets to Russia.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 18—What was defined last year as Rumania's battle against economic exploitation by her Communist allies has now become also a quest for “spiritual” accommodation with erstwhile ideological adversaries in the West.
SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 18 —Archbishop James Peter Davis announced today that the Santa Fé Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church would become a member of the New Mexico Council of Churches.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 1964, covering December 19, 1964.
The Beach Boys
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Barbra Streisand
Andy Williams
1964BĂ©atrice Dalle, French actress[â ]
Béatrice Dalle is a French actress and model. She has appeared in over fifty films and is best known internationally for her debut role in the 1986 film 37°2 le matin. Béatrice Dalle is renowned for her intense and unconventional roles, often portraying characters that are both provocative and transgressive.
1964Lorie Kane, Canadian golfer[â ]
Lorie Kane, is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She began her career on the LPGA Tour in 1996 and has four career victories and 99 top-10 finishes on the tour. She won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award in 2000 and became a member of the Order of Canada at a ceremony in December 2006. Kane was the second Canadian to have multiple wins on the LPGA circuit in one season, in 2000, after Sandra Post performed the feat twice, in 1978 and 1979. The next person to do so was Brooke Henderson, in 2016. In 2015, she was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. In May 2020 it was announced that she would be awarded the Order of Sport, marking her induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020-2021.
1964Randall McDaniel, American football player[â ]
Randall Cornell McDaniel is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Minnesota Vikings and two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
1964Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player[â ]
Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and businessman. Sabonis won the Euroscar six times and the Mr. Europa Award twice. He played in a variety of leagues, including the Spanish ACB League, and spent seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Playing the center position, Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in South Korea, for the Soviet Union, and later earned bronze medals at the 1992 Olympic Games and 1996 Olympic Games representing Lithuania. He retired from professional basketball in 2005. Sabonis was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 1986 NBA draft, but he did not play his first NBA game until 1995, at the age of 30.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[â ]