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Repr L M Rivers suggests office to study Cong-Pres powers
Wagner enters talks, calls for redoubled efforts to reach accord; asks mediators to rept back on areas in which agreement is lacking; believes strike can be averted; both bd and union reptdly have eased positions on wages
Lt Col Utter placed under probe for using tear gas, without authorization, in recent small US operation, Quinhon area; reptdly felt tear gas was most humane way to dislodge from caves Vietcong suspects using women and children as shields
US suspends deliveries of mil supplies because of Kashmir conflict
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 8, 1965, covering September 8, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack
The Beach Boys
1965Tutilo Burger, German Benedictine monk and abbot[†]
Tutilo Burger OSB is a German Benedictine. He took as his monastic name Tutilo, after the saint, monk and composer Tuotilo. Since 2011 he has been the eleventh archabbot of Beuron Archabbey, whilst his elder brother Stephan Burger is Archbishop of Freiburg.
1965Darlene Zschech, Australian singer-songwriter and pastor[†]
Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer who primarily writes praise and worship songs. Described as a pioneer of the modern worship movement, she is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church. Zschech is currently a contributing songwriter with CompassionArt, a charity founded by Christian songwriter Martin Smith. Along with her husband, Zschech is the lead pastor of Hope Unlimited Church in New South Wales.
1965Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (born 1922)[†]
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of the Wonder Children, later the Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.
1965Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)[†]
Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]