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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 -- George Young of Casa Grande, Ariz., raced to an upset victory over the Olympic 10,000-meter champion, Billy Mills, tonight in the two-mile run of the sixth annual Los Angeles invitational indoor track meet.
Pors
surveys of desegregation in South since passage of rights act: consensus among white businessmen, local and Fed officials is that despite compliance with law, there is less desegregation in pub accommodations than there was just after enactment of law; many Southern Negroes still reluctant to enter places formerly restricted to whites; survey shows gen compliance with law in cities of over 40,000 population, in small towns and rural areas on major hwys, and in facilities run by natl or regional chains
Sir W Churchill dies
dissidents action cited, article on proxy rules
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1965, covering January 24, 1965.
The Beatles
The Supremes
Soundtrack
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
1965Mike Awesome, American wrestler (died 2007)[†]
Michael Lee Alfonso was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) under the ring name Mike Awesome and for his appearances in Japan with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling as The Gladiator.
1965Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), Ferdinand (2017), and Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Gone Nutty and in 2018 for Best Animated Feature for Ferdinand.
1965Margaret Urlich, New Zealand singer-songwriter (died 2022)[†]
Margaret Mary Urlich was a New Zealand singer who lived in Australia for most of her career.
1965Pagonis Vakalopoulos, Greek footballer and manager[†]
Pagonis Vakalopoulos is a retired Greek footballer. He started his career in Polykastro, spent most of his career with Iraklis with which he won Balkans Cup and finished his playing career with Panionios. Currently he is the manager of Iraklis U20 team.
1965Winston Churchill, English statesman, soldier, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)[†]
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]