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occupation of mines ordered; troops and miners clash; miners ask 48-hr truce
on poverty program, radio int and Harlem s
US leads world in arms sales with $1.5-billion yrly volume; W Eurs irritated; officials say US refuses $500 million in sales yrly; Deputy Asst Defense Sec Kuss sees $10 billion in sales with $15-billion potential mkt by '71; links arms-sales efforts to balance-of-payments program
Police arrest 11 right-wing extremists in western France, including 2 high execs of police branch dealing with subversion; extremists orgn detailed
WASHINGTON, May 23 -- Congress, facing one of its heaviest workloads of the year, will focus its attention this week on five of the Administration's major proposals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 19, 1965, covering May 24, 1965.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Herman's Hermits
The Beach Boys
Andy Williams
1965John C. Reilly, American actor[â ]
John Christopher Reilly is an American actor. He is known as a character actor taking leading and supporting roles in independent drama films and studio comedies. He gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder (1990), Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), and Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004). Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award for his role in the musical film Chicago (2002). Reilly's other notable films include The River Wild (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), and The Hours (2002).
1965ShinichirÅ Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter[â ]
ShinichirÅ Watanabe is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Terror in Resonance, and Carole & Tuesday. Considered an auteur of Japanese animation by film and television critics, Watanabe's work is characterized by evocative uses of music, mature themes, and the incorporation of multiple genres.
1965Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (born 1908)[â ]
Alex or Aleck Miller, known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was an early and influential blues harp stylist who recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s. Miller used various names, including Rice Miller and Little Boy Blue, before calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson, which was also the name of a popular Chicago blues singer and harmonica player. To distinguish the two, Miller has been referred to as Sonny Boy Williamson II.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[â ]