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Zaretzki bars passing of appropriation bills without revenue bills; says Budget Dir Hurd told him state can get by without budget for some time; Repubs continue to oppose Rockefeller's proposals; he sends wires to newspaper, radio and TV eds explaining proposals and urging action by Apr 1; Sen com clears budget bills
Un-Amer Activities Com to investigate KKK; Adm pleased; com chmn Repr Willis says pub hearings will await gathering of facts; dept names St J Barrett to meet with Shelton and Craig; Shelton welcomes com probe; Craig bars meeting with Barrett
statement on terrorists' bombing of Saigon embassy
NY County grand jury opens probe of alleged conspiracy between NY Housing Auth and contractors to rig paint bids; about 25 contractors said to have divided work totaling $7 million a yr; contractor A Marcus jailed for refusal to testify; 3 others barred from city contracts for 5 yrs for refusal to sign waivers
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 31, 1965, covering March 31, 1965.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Nat King Cole
The Supremes
1965Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach[†]
Thomas Patrick Barrasso is an American professional ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 18 seasons. Barrasso began his time in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, who selected him fifth overall in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft out of high school. He was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988, where he would best be remembered and spend the majority of his career. Barrasso spent parts of 12 seasons with the Penguins, and was a Stanley Cup champion in 1991 and 1992. After being traded to the Ottawa Senators in March 2000 and sitting out the 2000–01 season, his final two seasons were split playing for the Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St. Louis Blues. Barrasso was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2023.
1965Patty Fendick, American tennis player and coach[†]
Patty Fendick is a former professional tennis player and the former women's tennis program head coach at University of Texas.
1965Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (died 2006)[†]
Jean-Christophe Lafaille was a French climber noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall. He climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousanders, many of them alone or by previously unclimbed routes, but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1965William McNamara, American actor and producer[†]
William West McNamara is an American film and television actor.
1965Steven T. Seagle, American author and screenwriter[†]
Steven T. Seagle is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game and animation industries.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]