Last Game Played at Polo Grounds is Jets Loss
Dec. 14, 1963 - The end came quietly at 4:36 p.m. today for the grand dame, the Polo Grounds. She was 72. The scoreboard lights atop the...
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Dec 14, 2023
Packers Edge 49ers in San Francisco
Dec. 14, 1963 - The Packers kept their championship hopes alive today with long passes that edged the 49ers in San Francisco, 21-17....
Dec 14, 2023
November Was Disastrous Month for South Vietnamese Government Forces
Dec. 14, 1963 - A high-level U.S. military officer said today that the month immediately following the Nov. 1 coup d’état that toppled...
Dec 14, 2023
Chiefs Dominate Patriots in Kansas City
Dec. 14, 1963 - Len Dawson passed for 3 touchdowns today and ran 43 yards for another to lead the Chiefs, playing probably their best...
Dec 14, 2023
Singer Dinah Washington Is Dead
Dec. 14, 1963 - Dinah Washington, the Negro blues singer, died today at her home in Detroit. Miss Washington, who was 39 years old, was...
Dec 14, 2023
Yastrzemski Wins A.L. Batting Title
Dec. 14, 1963 - Carl Yastrzemski, 24-year-old Boston Red Sox outfielder, won the American League batting title in 1963, official averages...
Dec 14, 2023
Pirates Sell Haddix To Orioles
Dec. 14, 1963 - Harvey Haddix, the Pittsburgh left-hander who pitched an unparalleled 12 perfect innings on May 26, 1959 only to lose the...
Dec 13, 2023
Bullets Score Overtime Victory Over Warriors
Dec. 13, 1963 - Talk about a thorn in your side! A rookie from West Virginia named Rod Thorn put away 5 points in overtime and gave the...
Dec 13, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Dec. 13, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Patrick O'Neal stars as Harmon Gordon, an aging man recently married to Flora (Ruta Lee),...
Dec 13, 2023
AFL Commissioner Talks “World Series” of Football
Dec. 13, 1963 - Commissioner Joe Foss of the American Football League says the NFL has refused to meet the AFL in a world championship...
Dec 13, 2023
Profaci Mobster Surrenders
Dec. 13, 1963 - A key figure in the notorious Profaci gang surrendered this morning to the Kings County District Attorney’s office. The...
Dec 13, 2023
Movies: “Charade” Highlights Christmas Releases
Dec. 13, 1963 - The annual avalanche of holiday films has begun to roll into New York’s motion picture theaters. “Charade,” with the...
Dec 13, 2023
Actor Brandon de Wilde To Wed
Dec. 13, 1963 - As a child of seven, Brandon de Wilde was a child star in Broadway’s “The Member of the Wedding.” Next Thursday, the...
Dec 12, 2023
Bruins Top Back Hawks, Escape NHL Cellar
Dec. 12, 1963 - The Boston Bruins made one of their rare escapes from the National Hockey League cellar tonight and continued a strange...
Dec 12, 2023
Royals Clobber Knicks
Dec. 12, 1963 - Three old pros took up the slack tonight as the Cincinnati Royals, minus Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas, defeated the...
Dec 12, 2023
Tittle Named NFL’s Most Valuable Player
Dec. 12, 1963 - Not only is Y.A. Tittle the most valuable player of the New York Giants, but he is the most valuable player in all of the...
Dec 12, 2023
Mrs. Kennedy To Observe One-Year Mourning Period
Dec. 12, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured Nov. 25) plans to observe a one-year period of mourning and will have no public...
Dec 12, 2023
Chubby Checker Announces Engagement
Dec. 12, 1963 - Rock ’n’ roll singer Chubby Checker today announced his engagement to Catherina Lodders, a Dutch woman whose year-long...
Dec 12, 2023
Some Top NFL Players Retiring
Dec. 12, 1963 - Some fine professional football players will bow out this weekend. The San Francisco 49ers will start Joe Perry (pictured...
Dec 11, 2023
Princeton Tops Lafayette as Bradley Shines
Dec. 11, 1963 - Bill Bradley (pictured) rescued Princeton twice tonight as the Tigers defeated Lafayette, 69-64, in a double-overtime...
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