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Govt stages news conf, Peking, for Gen Li Tsung-jen, recently returned after 16 yrs in US
NEW DELHI, Sept. 26 -- Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri warned the "big powers" today to stop bringing pressure on India to abandon Kashmir.
United Nations, New York, Sept. 26 -- Pakistan alleged today that India has misused a flag of truce during repeated violations over the last few days of the cease-fire demanded by the Security Council.
pol crisis seen remaining until elections are held
Athens, Sept. 26 -- Tension has been building up on the Greek-Turkish border in Thrace over the weekend following a dispute over an islet in the River Evros, which marks the frontier between the two countries.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 22, 1965, covering September 27, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
Soundtrack
Ramsey Lewis Trio
The Rolling Stones
1965Steve Kerr, American basketball player, coach and sportscaster[†]
Stephen Douglas Kerr is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the U.S. national team. He is known as one of the most accurate three-point shooters in NBA history and holds the record for highest career three-point percentage. Kerr is also a nine-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player and four as head coach of the Warriors. He was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History.
1965Bernard Lord, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick[†]
Bernard Lord is a Canadian lawyer, business executive and former politician. He served as the 30th premier of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006. Lord was appointed as board chair of Ontario Power Generation in 2014.
1965Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice[†]
Peter Gordon MacKay, a Canadian lawyer and politician, served as Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay became the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada — he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.
1965Alexis Stewart, American radio and television host[†]
Alexis Gilbert Stewart is an American television and radio host presenter. She is the only child of Martha Stewart and her ex-husband Andrew Stewart. She was the co-host of Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer on Sirius Satellite Radio, and Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer on the Hallmark Channel alongside co-host Jennifer Hutt.
1965Clara Bow, American actress (born 1905)[†]
Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
1965William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (born 1876)[†]
Sir William Arthur Stanier was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]