MSC directed McDonnell to use four batteries instead of five for main bus power on spacecraft Nos. 2 and up, after McDonnell's analysis of battery power requirements disclosed that a four-battery installation, if closely monitored, would be adequate. Titan II flight N-15 was launched from Cape Canaveral. It was the tenth in the series of Titan II research and development flights, and the second to achieve significantly reduced levels of longitudinal oscillations by means of propellant tank pressurization. Emmett Hall, the Chief Justice of the Saskatchewan Supreme Court, was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Died: Tadeusz Szeligowski, 66, Polish composer, educator, lawyer and music organizer January 11, 1963 (Friday) Two people in China, an 18-year-old fisherman and his seven-year-old younger brother, were fatally injured after the man took home a piece of radioactive cobalt-60 that had been dropped on farmland owned by the Anhui Agricultural University in Hefei. The cobalt-60 radiation was 43 petabecquerel; over a period of almost nine days before the sample was recovered, the man was exposed to 806 grays of radiation and died on January 23; his brother died two days later from exposure to 40 grays. The Beatles released "Please Please Me" in the United Kingdom, with "Ask Me Why" as the B-side. The group would perform the song on TV two days later on the ITV program Thank Your Lucky Stars. "Please Please Me" would become the first Beatles' single to reach #1 in the UK. The Project Engineering Field Office (located at Cape Canaveral) of the Mercury Project Office reported on the number of changes made to Mercury spacecraft 20 (MA-9) as of that date after its receipt at Cape Canaveral from McDonnell in St. Louis. There were 17 specific changes, as follows: one to the reaction control system, one to the environmental control system, seven to the electrical and sequential systems, and eight to the console panels. To stimulate contractor employees to better performance, Gemini Project Office Manager James A. Chamberlin suggested that astronauts visit with workers at various contractors' plants. Donald K. Slayton, Astronaut Activities Office, informed Chamberlin that such visits would be made, beginning with the Martin Company in February 1963. January 12, 1963 (Saturday) At the Australian National Athletics Championships in her home town of Perth, Western Australia, Margaret Burvill set a new world record of 23.2 seconds in the women's 220 yard