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The Zim Lines’ version of the crash of the Israeli liner Shalom with the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali was called “patently untrue” yesterday by a spokesman for the tanker's owners.
The Department of Welfare asked the city yesterday to approve a budget of almost $500 million for the coming fiscal year. The request is for an increase of more than $81 million over the current budget.
Representative Charles A. Buckley of the Bronx cautiously backed away yesterday from Julian B. Erway, upstate candidate for Senate majority leader in the 1965 Legislature.
A top‐level committee of experts issued a sharp warning yesterday against hasty citywide changes in the organization of the public high schools. The committee urged, instead, a series of experimental projects to determine the extent of reorganization needs.
SOCTRANG, South Vietnam, Dec. 28—Heavily outnumbered Government Rangers captured the headquarters of a Vietcong general and seized a record cache of enemy
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 1964, covering December 29, 1964.
The Beach Boys
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Barbra Streisand
The Supremes
1964Michael Cudlitz, American actor[†]
Michael Cudlitz is an American actor known for portraying John Cooper in the NBC/TNT drama series Southland for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013, Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, and Sergeant Abraham Ford in the AMC horror series The Walking Dead.
1964Josh Harris, American investor and sports team owner[†]
Joshua Jordan Harris is an American investor and sports team owner. Harris is a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and managing partner of the NBA team Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL team New Jersey Devils, and the NFL team Washington Commanders. He is additionally a general partner of the English football club Crystal Palace and holds a minority stake in Joe Gibbs Racing. Harris left Apollo in 2022 to focus on Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, which he formed with David Blitzer in 2017 as a holding company for their shared sports properties.
1964Shingo Tsurumi, Japanese actor[†]
Shingo Tsurumi is a Japanese actor.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]