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Screvane announces plan for police advisers; Ryan backs civilian control of police, TV
fleet drivers strike in all boros except SI to win recognition for new union; act after rally; picket garages; police alerted against violence
Christian Dems win 42.7%, Soc Dems 40.7% of vote; details
WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Two of the major Congressional battles of the year are shaping up as the House prepares to act this week on bills to provide low-rent housing subsidies and expand the antipoverty program.
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 23, 1965, covering June 28, 1965.
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Barbra Streisand
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Andy Williams
The Beach Boys
1965Jessica Hecht, American actress[†]
Jessica Hecht is an American actress known for her roles as Gretchen Schwartz on Breaking Bad, Susan Bunch on Friends, Carol Mannheim on The Boys, and Karen on Special. She is also known for her expansive work on Broadway, earning Tony Award nominations for her roles in A View from the Bridge (2010), Summer, 1976 (2023) and Eureka Day (2025).
1965Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player[†]
Christiaan Petrus 'Tiaan' Strauss, is a former rugby union and rugby league footballer who represented both South Africa and Australia at international level in rugby union and also played top-level domestic rugby league in Australia. He won the 1999 Rugby World Cup with Australia and the Currie Cup with Western Province.
1965Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (born 1905)[†]
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader. He was one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians in the late 1920s and early 1930s, appearing on over 4,000 recordings. In 1959, a biopic was made of his life and career, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]