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In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]
1965Kyle Chandler, American actor[†]
Kyle Martin Chandler is an American actor. He received critical acclaim for his performance as Eric Taylor in the NBC series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.
1965Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog[†]
Yuji Naka , sometimes credited as YU2, is a Japanese video game designer and programmer. He is the co-creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and was the president of Sonic Team at Sega until his departure in 2006.
1965Guy Picciotto, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Guy Picciotto is an American songwriter, musician, and record producer from Washington, D.C. He is best known as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist in Fugazi and as lead vocalist of Rites of Spring.
1965Bryan Singer, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Bryan Jay Singer is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed, as well as multiple television series.
1965Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (born 1903)[†]
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
1965The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.[†]
The Battle of Chawinda was a major engagement between Pakistan and India during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 as part of the Sialkot campaign. It is well known as being one of the largest tank battles in history since the Battle of Kursk, which was fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in World War II.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP) -- The United States is taking diplomatic soundings on a bid by President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan for American intervention to end the Indian-Pakistan war. But officials said today President Johnson was determined to keep the focus of his peace efforts on the United Nations.
Washington, Sept. 16 -- Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut took sharp issue today with the critical assessment by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of this country's intervention in the Dominican Republic.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Sept. 16 -- The Secretary General, U Thant, returned today from a nine-day peace mission to India and Pakistan convinced that their two Governments want to stop fighting and find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute.
Pres Johnson says he has ordered special task force to map educ program to benefit 'all men everywhere' as part of pledge to export 'Great Soc' overseas, s, Washington; says plan is not 'Amer dream' but open to everyone; outlines long-range plans
McNamara 'cautiously optimistic' about situation, news conf; sees expected Vietcong offensive to split country blunted
Govt unveils Natl Econ Plan to increase output by 25% by '70; stresses that everyone, mgt, labor and agr, must be more efficient; proposes greater mobility of labor, ending restrictive practices by indus and unions, increasing investment in mfg indus about 7% a yr and increasing efforts to revive lagging regions such as Scotland; other proposals; Min Brown lauds rept; Conservative leader E Heath scores it
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Suspends pub on order of NYC Publishers Assn as ANG strikes NY Times
Tokyo, Sept. 16 -- U. Alexis Johnson, outgoing Deputy U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, declared before a top level forum here today that Japan and other Noncommunist nations can only at their own peril remain "indifferent to the struggle going on today in Southeast Asia."
London, Sept. 16 -- U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, said today that his peace mission to India and Pakistan had not been a failure.
Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 16 -- Pakistan gave thanks today to Portugal for her "spontaneous support" in the conflict with India.