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Before he founded the Wolfverine Aluminum Corporation 13 years ago, Don Smiith, in succession, managed a grocery store, worked in a steel mill, operated a crane at Willow Run, hired out as a carpenter, sold real estate and ran a roofing and siding business.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7 -- Champagne Tony Lema drank iced water after a five-under-par 67 that gave him the 54-hole lead in the $125,000 Philadelphia Golf Classic today.
THE angry voice of John Osborne, the British playwright whose outbursts against the established society of England have made him rich and famous, will be heard again in the land -- this land, that is.
ALL through the 19th and deep into the 20th century, American culture has been significantly regional in character. The idea of a unified national culture kept recurring as both wish and program, but the reality was a series of regional outbursts from what might be called the sub-countries of the imagination.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 7 -- The New York Jets introduced their highly publicized quaterback, Joe Namath, to professional football tonight. He did well, but not well enough, as the Houston Oilers won, 21-16, with a touchdown in the last three minutes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 4, 1965, covering August 8, 1965.
The Beatles
Herman's Hermits
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1965Angus Fraser, English cricketer, manager, and journalist[†]
Angus Robert Charles Fraser is an English cricket administrator.
1965Kate Langbroek, Australian talk show host[†]
Katherine Langbroek is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. Langbroek currently hosts Nine Network's reality program My Mum Your Dad. She is also a regular presenter on The Project and co-hosts the show on Tuesday nights alongside Waleed Aly, Sarah Harris and Sam Taunton. She has previously hosted Hughesy & Kate with Dave Hughes on the HIT Network.
1965Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (born 1916)[†]
Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]