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US Sup Ct extends to state criminal trials 6th Amendment guarantee of right of accused to be confronted with and to cross-examine witnesses against them, Tex robbery case and Ala assault case
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Pres Johnson's agr program, including cut in farm subsidies, seen raising consumer prices though he stresses that farm prices have little impact on retail levels
Powers calls meeting of printers at NY News, making News miss 1st 2 eds; he and News execs comment; McMahon and paper handlers pres Kepple resign from Newspaper Trades Council; Wagner comments or talks; says he and Kheel keep in touch; status of talks with various unions revd
US Labor Dept finds he won election for IUE pres by over 23,000 votes, should have been installed Jan 1
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 31, 1965, covering April 6, 1965.
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The Beatles
Nat King Cole
The Supremes
1965Black Francis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, better known by the stage name Black Francis, is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with record label 4AD and one with American Recordings, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He re-adopted the name Black Francis in 2007.
1965Sterling Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Sterling Sharpe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and played in the NFL from 1988 to 1994 with the Packers in a career shortened by a neck injury. He became an analyst for the NFL Network. He is the older brother of Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe. In February 2025, Sterling Sharpe was selected for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1965Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.[†]
Intelsat I was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, on April 6, 1965. It was built by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company for COMSAT, which activated it on June 28, 1965. It was based on the Syncom series of satellites that Hughes had previously built for NASA to demonstrate that communications via synchronous-orbit satellite were feasible. Its booster was a Thrust Augmented Delta. After a series of maneuvers, it reached its geosynchronous orbital position over the Atlantic Ocean at 28° West longitude, where it was put into service.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]