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NY,NH&H trustees reptd ready to proceed with long-threatened plan to cut commuter service to NYC
Wamba survivors confirm rept
police raid teen-age drinking party, Lake Mohawk, NJ, on authorization of host's father
Mayor Wagner scores Marchi rept as 'chop suey' and compilation of 'unsupported testimony'; Screvane calls it 'hodgepodge,' W Carlton calls it 'contemptible'; M Schleifer, 1 of 7 named, charges distortions; orgn member E Birnbaum threatened with contempt action for refusal to testify
Assembly adjourns to Jon 18 without action on unpaid USSR assessments; Thant, in accordance with USSR demand, deletes from closing statement projected appeal for voluntary contributions; authorized to meet expenses until regular budget is adopted; Fedorenko says USSR will refuse to pay for some regular budget items estab 'in violation' of Charter
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 1964, covering December 31, 1964.
Elvis Presley
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack
The Supremes
1964Winston Benjamin, Antiguan cricketer[†]
Winston Keithroy Matthew Benjamin is a former Antiguan cricketer who played 21 Tests and 85 One Day Internationals for the West Indies. He is the father of Olympic gold medalist hurdler Rai Benjamin.
1964Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director[†]
Michael James McDonald is an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv. McDonald joined the show during the fourth season (1998) and remained a member of the cast until the end of the penultimate thirteenth season, having become the longest-tenured cast member.
1964Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (born 1884)[†]
Robert Matthew Byrne was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1907 through 1917, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1907–1909), Pittsburgh Pirates (1909–1913), Philadelphia Phillies (1913–1917) and Chicago White Sox (1917). Byrne batted and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1964Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1892)[†]
Ólafur Tryggvason Thors was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party, who served six times as prime minister of Iceland.
1964Henry Maitland Wilson, English field marshal (born 1881)[†]
Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson,, also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the First World War on the Somme and at Passchendaele. During the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British Troops in Egypt, in which role he launched Operation Compass, attacking Italian forces with considerable success, in December 1940. He went on to be Military Governor of Cyrenaica in February 1941, commanding a Commonwealth expeditionary force to Greece in April 1941 and General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan in May 1941.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]