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October 12, 1965

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SUPREME COURT CLEARS ELECTION FOR LEGISLATURE; Dismisses Appeals to Bar Balloting Nov. 2 Under Republicans' Plan A

By Fred P. Graham

US Sup Ct clears way for Nov election under Plan A by dismissing 4 interlocking appeals; move leaves in effect special 3-judge Fed ct order; Dem opposition to election eased during summer when chances by victory brightened; appellants were WMCA, Zaretzki, Travia, group of NYC officials headed by Council Pres Screvane; Dewey filed appeal for Rockefeller and other NYS officials on lower ct ruling that Plans B, C, D were unconst, and appeal from NYS Appeals Ct ruling that Plan A was unconst; Sup Ct action removes for present Fed ct direction of apportionment

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HARYOU AUDITING SAID TO BE REMISS; Absence of Accounting Has Kept Agency From Getting Funds, City Unit Says HARYOU AUDITING SAID TO BE REMISS

By Peter Kihss

Econ Opportunity Com aide says orgn's failure to provide detailed proposals for use of city funds and pledge of 'complete acctg' has kept it from getting $5 million in city funds and caused delay in its drawing on previous city grants; Wingate says his auditors have informed him of 'no evidence of financial malfeasance' thus far; orgn's 58-man bd, after meeting on Fed mgt improvement suggestions, outlines program; will ask Fed auditor Prof Canfield to be mgt consultant, J R Dumpson to head Project Uplift task force, and Columbia U Prof P Wilcox to be project dir; also appts S R Pierce chmn of special 9-man com to probe internal operations; adopts new policy that poor will comprise 1/3 of members and 1/4 of exec com; Dr K Clark decries merger of orgn's operations

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Columbus's Crew Won't Switch; COLUMBUS'S CREW WILL NOT SWITCH

By Philip Benjamin

J La Corte says Ital Historical Soc will defend Columbus and fight Yale claim and will seek aid of Vatican and others to disprove theory, s, Bklyn rally; Repr Lindsay defends Columbus; Yale silent on dispute; says K of C seeks to examine map; Spanish authorities revive claim that A Sanchez de Huelva may have discovered Amer in 1484; Leif Ericson and Columbus illus

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 1965, covering October 12, 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

Dan Abnett

1965Dan Abnett, English author[†]

Daniel P. Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and has worked on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.

Chris Chandler (American football)

1965Chris Chandler, American football player[†]

Christopher Mark Chandler is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He played for seven different teams in eight different cities during his NFL career, and is known for leading the Atlanta Falcons to a 14–2 season in 1998 followed by an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII.

J. J. Daigneault

1965J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]

Jean-Jacques Daigneault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 2000. He was the head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2019 to 2021. He also served as an assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL from 2012 until the end of the 2017–18 NHL season.

Scott O'Grady

1965Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot[†]

Scott Francis O'Grady is a former United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot. On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory. US Marines from heavy-helicopter squadron HMH-464 and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit eventually rescued O'Grady after six days of evading the Bosnian Serbs. He was previously involved in the Banja Luka incident when he had fired upon six enemy aircraft. The 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines is loosely based on his experience.

Notable Deaths

Paul Hermann Müller

1965Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)[†]

Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller, was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

Historical Context for October 12, 1965

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