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In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]
1965Cornelius Bennett, American football player[†]
Cornelius O'Landa Bennett is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995, Atlanta Falcons from 1996 to 1998, and the Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2000. Bennett was a five-time Pro Bowler, being elected in 1988, and 1990–1993, and won the AFC Defensive Player of the Year award twice.
1965Tim Cain, American video game designer[†]
Timothy Cain is an American video game developer and YouTuber best known as the creator, producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1997 video game Fallout. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
1965Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer and coach[†]
Sanjeev Sharma is a former Indian cricketer, entrepreneur and cricket coach who played in two Test matches and 23 One Day Internationals from 1988 to 1997. As right arm medium pace bowler, he was one of several bowlers tried out as Kapil Dev's opening partners in the 80's. He made an impressive start by polishing off the tail on his Test debut against New Zealand in 1988–89 to finish with three for 37. He toured West Indies in 1989. After a career that spanned nearly 20 years, he announced his retirement from competitive cricket in November 2004. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup.
1965Mia Zapata, American singer (died 1993)[†]
Mia Katherine Zapata was an American musician who was the lead singer for the punk band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was raped and murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27. The crime went unsolved for a decade before her killer, Jesus Mezquia, was arrested in 2003. Mezquia was tried, convicted and sentenced to 36 years in prison.
1965Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (born 1879)[†]
Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player and physician who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham.
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Sukarno agreement with Communist China to outflank West in SE Asia discussed, S Topping series on Indonesia; map indicates power balance
'white paper' issued by HR Repub (Goodell) Com on Planning and Research attacks Johnson conduct of war; charges he encouraged Communist miscalculations of Amer intentions by his '64 campaign ss; says he, not Eisenhower, is responsible for commitment of large number of Amers to combat; charges Kennedy and Johnson Adms with an uncertain policy in Vietnam, lack of candor and misleading statements; Repubs release rept 1 day early because Johnson scheduled news conf 1 hr before planned release time; Ford charges Johnson tries to 'smother coverage' of document
Sen subcom hearing on bill; W B Ball, repr of Penna Cath Conf, opposes Fed aid for disseminating birth control data but backs Fed support of study and research on population problems; says statement is approved by Natl Cath Welfare Conf adm bd (near-official voice of Amer RC hierarchy); bill backed by RC Rev D L Hanley
astronauts repair aiming device; observe Minuteman missile launching from Vandenberg base ; Cooper sets new world record for total time in space; craft maintains contact from 500 mi with radar transponder at Merritt Is designed to reach target of 250 mi; Cooper avgs 5 hrs sleep out of 24; Conrad avgs 6 1/2; excerpts from conversations with flight control center; temp readings of hydrogen and oxygen tanks reversed
Sen, 67-27, passes conf bill; Morse calls it 'shameful and shocking capitulation to State Dept and White House'; Fulbright calls it 'depressing,' but urges passage; says groundwork may have been laid for reforms in '66
City Council approves $7 million to rebuild Chelsea station to get 100 million gals a day from Hudson; vote delayed to get rept on radiation hazard, issue raised by O'Dwyer; water still leaks in Central Pk; reservoirs down to less than 200 days' supply
USWA rejects indus offer of 40¢ hrly wage rise spread over 39 mos
computer system to help apprehend scofflaws and car thieves demonstrated by police; ptl at control point radios license numbers of passing cars to Univac computer, which identifies those on wanted list within seconds; police at 2d control point are then alerted to intercept wanted car; illus; demonstration, named Operation Corral, attended by officials and newsmen; ends with arrest of Mrs G Placente, Queens, for ignoring summons; other details
UAR and Saudi Arabia sign peace pact, Jidda, calling for immediate cease-fire, end of Saudi aid to royalists and gradual withdrawal of UAR troops; caretaker govt to be set up and natl plebiscite to choose type of govt to be held in 15 mos; pact calls for joint Saudi-UAR peace com and repub and royalist observer teams to supervise troops withdrawal; conf of 50 tribal leaders of both sides reptdly to set up coalition govt excluding alSalal and Imam
HR, 236-139, votes $967 million for aid program, $328.6 million less than Cong authorized; Repr Fogarty says figure was cut because 2 mos of fiscal yr had already passed
Tirado, R: ct drops murder charges against H Cruz who 'confessed' June 14 slaying he could not have committed because he was in jail at the time; Cruz charges police beat confession from him; police deny charge; order probe