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In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]
1965Scott Brooks, American basketball player and coach[†]
Scott William Brooks is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the top assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he won an NBA championship with the Houston Rockets in 1994.
1965John Laurinaitis, American wrestler and producer[†]
John Hodger Laurinaitis, also known by his former ring name Johnny Ace, is an American retired professional wrestler and business executive.
1965Ian Roberts, English-Australian rugby league player and actor[†]
Ian Roberts is an Australian actor and former professional rugby league player who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A forward, he played for New South Wales in State of Origin and won 13 caps for the Australia national team. He played club football for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wigan, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and North Queensland Cowboys. In 1995 Roberts became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first rugby league footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay.
1965J. K. Rowling, English author and film producer[†]
Joanne Rowling, known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, has been translated into 84 languages, and has spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.
reptd under consideration for apptmt to US Ct of Appeals; por
asks Security Council for active help in ending Vietnamese war, lr
Pres Johnson signs medicare bill into law, Independence, Mo; hails ex-Pres Truman's role; Truman hails bill; Johnson uses 72 pens to sign bill, gives them to those present; Vice Pres Humphrey, other notables attend; illus
Christenberry orders Spiers and Knight to draw up and enforce strict rules for protecting demonstrators or face $100-a-day fines and jail sentences; orders Bogalusa policeman to rept to ct Within 10 days that he understands injunction and new enforcement guidelines; illus
Sen com approves bill for creation, 9-4; Ribicoff amendment would appt Asst Sec to adm programs now handled by FHA on private mortgage mkt; Javits amendment would create Office of Urban Program Coordination to deal with some 60 Fed programs not under jurisdiction of dept; R F Kennedy amendments would require Pres study of urban programs of other depts that might be transferred to new dept and would require transportation to be included in problems of urban development
Turkey asks UN Security Council meeting on charge Cyprus violates Turkish Cypriote rights; charges Govt abolished special minority status of Turks; Sec Gen Thant says Govt leaders, in response to his plea, have pledged restraint; Rossides defends Govt actions; tension rises
Vietcong inflicts heavy casualties on soldiers at Tanan training center, blows up bridge between Tanan and prov capital Coadanh and harasses Nghiahanh, Quangngai Prov, with small arms fire; other attacks described; Amer inf units join in search for guerrillas in jungles near Saigon; US mil spokesman confirms Amer plane accidentally bombed pagoda; explains accident; map
Tiffany's refuses to put tags on mdse in window; cites long-time policy of displaying all prices in store; Pacetta defends ruling as aid to large majority in NYC
Parliament emergency session breaks up in confusion; acting pres Baklatzis declares Govt fallen and Parliament adjourned after rightist walkout and pro-Papandreou and leftist boycott leaves chamber without quorum; session debate detailed; Athanasiadis-Novas scores Baklatzis action; Sup Adm Ct disputes his right to declare govt fallen; Papandreou backers demonstrate in sts, Athens
Pentagon repts small number of jets will be turned over to S Vietnamese Air Force, their first; silent on number and type
Bishop ousted; GB ousts 2d sec at USSR Embassy, London, apparently in retaliation