McNamara 'Launches' Carrier Strike; McNamara 'Launches' Carrier Strike
McNamara and US delegation make field trip to Danang, Lemy and Chulai; talks with top Amer and 5 Vietnamese mil leaders; gets rept from Lt Col Clement on marine actions; illus
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McNamara and US delegation make field trip to Danang, Lemy and Chulai; talks with top Amer and 5 Vietnamese mil leaders; gets rept from Lt Col Clement on marine actions; illus
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White House panel begins study of problem of reviving Negro family structure, which will be discussed at Nov conf of Negro leaders and Govt officials announced by Pres Johnson in recent speech; unpub Govt study of Negro family plight noted as principal source of Johnson speech
Beame scores borrowing to balance budget, TV; Screvane defends it, TV
Zond III launched into wide orbit around sun from satellite in parking orbit; Tass says craft is designed to test automatic rocket systems and conduct studies 'in interplanetary space'; says trajectory is 'close to expected one; speculation on purpose
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 14, 1965, covering July 19, 1965.
The Beatles
Herman's Hermits
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
1965Evelyn Glennie, Scottish musician[†]
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015.
1965Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer and manager[†]
Claus-Dieter Wollitz is a German football coach and former player, who is the current director of football and manager of 3. Liga club FC Energie Cottbus.
1965Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (born 1875)[†]
Syngman Rhee, also known by his art name Unam, was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1919 to his impeachment in 1925 and from 1947 to 1948. And he was also the president of the People's Republic of Korea from 1945 to 1946. As president of South Korea, Rhee's government was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and in the late 1950s growing political instability and public opposition to his rule.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]