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17 convicted, 3 freed, Auschwitz camp guards trial, Frankfurt; 6 sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for murder, 11 to varying terms for complicity; judge comments; rejects defense plea that they only obeyed orders
HR com approves funds for Pres Johnson's med research program; defeats Repub opposition
White House Conf on Equal Employment Opportunity panel discusses 'bunny problem,' extreme example of possible test of law banning bias on basis of sex, in which male applies for job as bunny in Playboy Club
HR, 221-172, passes bill to extend for 4 yrs ctf program of '64 and raise subsidy to $1.25 a bu; rise expected to add $150 million a yr to farmers incomes
difficulty in filling tank for fuel cells with hydrogen, power surge evidently caused by lightning, and fire in communications cable force postponement of Gemini V launching; area illus; astronauts illus in craft
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 18, 1965, covering August 20, 1965.
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Herman's Hermits
Soundtrack
1965KRS-One, American rapper and producer[†]
Lawrence "Kris" Parker, better known by his stage names KRS-One and Teacha, is an American rapper from the Bronx. He rose to prominence as part of the hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the mid-1980s. KRS-One is known for his songs "Sound of da Police", "Love's Gonna Get'cha ", and "My Philosophy". Boogie Down Productions received numerous awards and critical acclaim in their early years. Following the release of the group's debut album, Criminal Minded, fellow artist Scott La Rock was shot and killed, but KRS-One continued the group, effectively as a solo project. He began releasing records under his own name in 1993. He is politically active, having started the Stop the Violence Movement after La Rock's death. He is also a vegan activist, expressed in songs such as "Beef". He is widely considered an influence on many hip-hop artists.
1965Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (born 1939)[†]
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965, he was killed by Tom Coleman, a highway worker and part-time deputy sheriff, in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales from a racist attack. He saved the life of the young Black civil rights activist. They were both working in the nonviolent civil rights movement in Lowndes County to integrate public places and register Black voters after passage of the Voting Rights Act that summer. Daniels' death generated further support for the civil rights movement.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]