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Holy Week opened yesterday with Palm Sunday and an unusual ecumenical touch. For the first time in several years, the Jewish Passover will coincide next weekend with the Christian Easter season.
N Vietnam pub Nhan Dan criticizes proposal as 'bait' of 'stupid pirates,'
execs stock store with help of truckers; store and Teamsters officials deny some drivers claim that they were hired from A Provenzano NJ local; restocking carried out despite police warning of Sabbath violations and operating carrier without license; 22 trucks leased from Peoples Express
Raborn, (Vice Adm) W F, CIA Dir
US officials see favorable trend in war; rept that peasants bring more information about Vietcong, S Vietnamese troops fight better, more Vietcong troops defect; link more active US role; Phan Huy Quat stresses gen improvement in morale; US officers see Vietcong undertaking major offensive, possibly in central Vietnam, to offset morale improvement there
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 7, 1965, covering April 12, 1965.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Nat King Cole
Herman's Hermits
1965Kim Bodnia, Danish actor and director[†]
Kim Bodnia is a Danish actor. He became widely known for his role as police detective Martin Rohde in the Scandinavian crime drama series The Bridge. He's also known internationally for his lead role as drug dealer Frank in Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 directorial debut Pusher, and as Konstantin in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's BBC America spy thriller TV series Killing Eve (2018–2022).
1965Chi Onwurah, English politician[†]
Dame Chinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West since 2024, and previously for Newcastle upon Tyne Central from 2010 to 2024, when the constituency was abolished. She is a member of the Labour Party.
1965Gervais Rufyikiri, Burundian politician[†]
Gervais Rufyikiri is a Burundian politician who was Second Vice President of Burundi from 2010 to 2015.
1965Mihai Stoica, Romanian footballer and manager[†]
Mihai "Meme" Stoica is a former president of Oțelul Galați and former general manager of Unirea Urziceni. Since November 2010 until September 2011, Mihai Stoica was the manager of Steaua Bucureşti. He was for a while the permanent co-host of some TV shows at DigiSport TV Channel. In 2012, he returned to Steaua as general manager. Currently, Mihai Stoica takes on the role of a sports analyst on the Prima Sport broadcast.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]