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ex-Min Phan Huy Quat agrees to try to form Govt after Nguyen Luu Vien fails
TB&TA asks NYS Legis permit to build $100-million, 14-mi bridge-causeway between Port Chester and Oyster Bay; Chmn Moses stresses future traffic needs; span would link Cross Westchester Expressway and NY Thruway with Wantaah-Oyster Bay Expressway; illus; map
Johnson Adm reptdly prepares broad statement of US position; mil activity virtually halted for 48 hrs; speculation
hundreds of couples wed in mass ceremonies to formalize common law marriages; M Garcia Garcia, 104, and M B Navarro, 90, oldest
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 10, 1965, covering February 15, 1965.
The Beatles
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The Supremes
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The Beach Boys
1965Craig Matthews, South African cricketer[†]
Craig Russell Matthews (born 15 February 1965 is a former South African cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and 56 One Day Internationals between 1991 and 1997.
1965Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (born 1919)[†]
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, alternatively billed as Nat "King" Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
1965The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag.[†]
The maple leaf is the characteristic leaf of the maple tree. It is most widely recognized as the national symbol of Canada.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]