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October 11, 1965

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Headlines from October 11, 1965

President Busy and Bantering in Hospital; PRESIDENT KEEPS BUSY IN HOSPITAL

By Robert B. Semple Jr.special To the New York Times

Johnson has busy day; signs bills, makes apptmts, sees newsmen; says he feels good; repts wt at 200 lbs, 10 lbs less than on entering hosp; Cain reveals that he has stone in left kidney, discovered in '55, and that there are no plans to remove it; Johnson being fed intravenously but takes other nourishment; drs elated by rapid recovery but fear difficulty in persuading him to stay in bed; Johnson walks with help; makes phone call; visited by wife, Lynda, Humphrey and wife; his anecdote about a sec noted; illus with Humphrey

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Eisenhower Recalls Early Frustration; Eisenhower Recalls Early Frustration

By Felix Belair Jr

int, Gettysburg; lauds wife's advice when he threatened to leave Army for newspaper career in World War I; discusses plans to curb activities; revs mil career; evaluates Gen MacArthur personality and comments on tour of duty with him in Philippines; pays tribute to Maj Gen F Conner's influence on his career; NY Times not to pub excerpts from his memoirs, Waging Peace 1956-1961, as scheduled because of newspaper strike

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 1965, covering October 11, 1965.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Help! (Soundtrack) by The Beatles

    Help! (Soundtrack)

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for Look At Us by Sonny & Cher

    Look At Us

    Sonny & Cher

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for The In Crowd by Ramsey Lewis Trio

    The In Crowd

    Ramsey Lewis Trio

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    9
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Sound Of Music by Soundtrack

    The Sound Of Music

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    30
  5. 5
    Album cover for Out Of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones

    Out Of Our Heads

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10

Notable Births

Sean Patrick Flanery

1965Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor and producer[†]

Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor. He is known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999) and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), Greg Stillson in the television series The Dead Zone, Jeremy "Powder" Reed in Powder (1995), Indiana Jones in the George Lucas television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw 3D (2010). He is also known for his role as Sam Gibson on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 2011. He starred in Devil's Carnival, a short film which was screened on tour beginning in April 2012.

Alexander Hacke

1965Alexander Hacke, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]

Alexander Hacke is a German guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, musician, record producer, writer and filmmaker. He is primarily known as a longtime member of the influential German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten.

Orlando Hernández

1965Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player[†]

Orlando Hernández Pedroso, nicknamed "El Duque", is a Cuban-born right-handed former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Industriales of the Cuban National Series, the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball, and the Cuban national baseball team in international play.

1965Volodymyr Horilyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach[†]

Volodymyr Ivanovych Horilyi is a Soviet and Ukrainian retired football defender and a football coach.

Lennie James

1965Lennie James, English actor[†]

Lennie Michael James is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Morgan Jones in the AMC series The Walking Dead and in its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead, and starring as DCI Tony Gates in Line of Duty series one.

Notable Deaths

Dorothea Lange

1965Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (born 1895)[†]

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

Walther Stampfli

1965Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1884)[†]

Walther Stampfli was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1940–1947).

Historical Context for October 11, 1965

In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]