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Amer mil spokesman repts air strikes in N Vietnam have improve morale and performance of S Vietnamese troops; US Defense Dept photo shows results of raids
charge Russians with brutality; cite hostility and racial bias in Baku; say univ barred African groups from mingling, thus hampering strike; Ghana Amb Elliot repts 2 or 3 persons held in alleged murder of Ghanaian student, Baku
Chancellor Callaghan presents fiscal '66 budget, considered toughest in yrs; holds main aim to restore confidence in pound; details
Sen com clears bill without changes; Sen Morse, bill's floor mgr, sees time enough for changes if required
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 7, 1965, covering April 7, 1965.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Nat King Cole
Herman's Hermits
1965Bill Bellamy, American comedian, actor, and producer[†]
William Bellamy is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Bellamy first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or coining the phrase "booty call", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for sex.
1965Rozalie Hirs, Dutch composer and poet[†]
Rozalie Hirs is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination.
1965Alison Lapper, English painter and photographer[†]
Alison Lapper MBE is a British artist. She is the subject of the sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from September 2005 until late 2007. She and her late son Parys featured in the BBC docuseries Child of Our Time.
1965Nenad Vučinić, Serbian-New Zealand basketball player and coach[†]
Nenad Vučinić is a Serbian-New Zealand basketball coach and former player. He was once interim head coach for the Philippines men's national basketball team, with Chot Reyes replacing him in the following 2022 FIBA Asia Cup.
1965Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)[†]
Joseph Ernest Roger Léger was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 187 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers from 1943 to 1950. He was born in L'Annonciation, Quebec.
1965Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe.[†]
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes and resist U.S. federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people. These were in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereign entities. The organization continues to be an association of federally recognized and state-recognized Indian tribes.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]