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riots continue day after arrest of 14-yr-old for waiving water pistol while on picket line; illus; bricks hurled at police and store windows; 17 youths, 5 adults arrested; pickets were organized by Galamison; he charges authorities deny students right to demonstrate; scores use of mounted police; Deputy Police Comr Arm replies
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announces Vatican accepts 'with great joy' council inv to discuss possibilities of dialogue and collaboration, council hq; council gen sec Visser 't Hooft pleased; speculation
Nasser says UAR can do without W Ger econ aid, s, Aswan; notes other sources; calls USSR aid free from pressure or interference
Leopoldville mil sources rept Ugandans take frontier town of Mahagi and advance 40 mi to Nioka; say Ugandans also attack Kasindi; Kampala sources say Congolese attacked at Kasindi; map; events bring Tshombe back to Leopoldville from natl pol front conf in Luluabourg; he is met by US Amb Godley
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 17, 1965, covering February 19, 1965.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Supremes
The Righteous Brothers
1965Jon Fishman, American drummer[†]
Jon Fishman is an American drummer and co-founder of the band Phish, which was, in part, named after him. He is credited with co-writing nineteen Phish songs, eight with a solo credit.
1965Clark Hunt, American businessman[†]
Clark Knobel Hunt is an American billionaire and businessman as well as a scion of the wealthy Hunt family. He currently serves as chairman and CEO of the National Football League (NFL)'s Kansas City Chiefs, Major League Soccer (MLS)‘s FC Dallas and a founding investor-owner in MLS. He is also chairman of Hunt Sports Group, where he oversees the operations of the Chiefs, FC Dallas and, formerly, the Columbus Crew of MLS. The group is estimated to have a total net worth of $24.8 billion as of 2024. He is the son of Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and his second wife Norma Hunt, and is the grandson of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt. As of 2025, he had an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion.
1965Leroy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Kirk Leroy Miller professionally known as Leroy Miller is an American musician from Spokane, Washington.
1965Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.[†]
Phạm Ngọc Thảo, also known as Albert Thảo, was a communist sleeper agent of the Việt Minh who infiltrated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and also became a major provincial leader in South Vietnam. In 1962, he was made overseer of Ngô Đình Nhu's Strategic Hamlet Program in South Vietnam and deliberately forced it forward at an unsustainable speed, causing the production of poorly equipped and poorly defended villages and the growth of rural resentment toward the regime of President Ngô Đình Diệm, Nhu's elder brother. In light of the failed land reform efforts in North Vietnam, the Hanoi government welcomed Thao's efforts to undermine Diem.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]