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Earnings highest for any corp in history, 2d qr and Jan-June; latter total $1.28 billion, sales vol $11.2 billion
Controller Levitt charges Dem Legis did not take bipartisan approach, s, NYS Dem Com
Heath election as new leader of Conservative party seen assured after he wins 150 of 298 votes cast on 1st ballot; Maudling gets 133 votes, E Powell 15; they withdraw from race; choice of Heath seen giving party more professional image
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 28, 1965, covering July 28, 1965.
The Beatles
Herman's Hermits
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1965Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer[†]
Priscilla Chan Wai Han is a Hong Kong singer. She is renowned for her contralto singing voice and her maturely clear, technically skilled, and emotion-rich vocals.
1965Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (born 1894)[†]
Tarō Hirai , better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo , was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" .
1965Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (born 1875)[†]
Sheikh Attallah Suheimat or Attlallah Pasha Suheimat was a Jordanian leader, politician, and a statesperson. Born in the historic city of Al Karak, south of Jordan. He was the son of Sheikh Sulieman effendi Suheimat who was a national leader and a Member of the first municipal council of the city of Karak during the reign of the Ottoman Empire in the 1890s. Sheikh Attallah Suheimat was the head of the Ghassanids tribes in Jordan, and a famous leader during different time periods in the region: Ottoman Syria, Transjordan, and later the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He held several senior positions including the President of the Al-Haqqania Court in the Ottoman Empire and President of the Court of First Instance in The "National Government of Moab". He participated in the development of the National Charter in 1928, and in 1929 was a member of the first Legislative Council in the Emirate of Transjordan representing Al Karak and Ma'an. Sheikh Suheimat was the Director of the General Intelligence in the government of King Faisal I of Syria.
1965Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]