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closes; record 446,953 final day attendance brings '65 total to 24,459,168 and 2-yr total to 51,607,448; pavilion dir describes vandalism; some pavilions close early to avoid pilferage; illus; Moses farewell s
Civil rights groups score Southern ps integration pace; claim recent Educ Office survey of compliance with '64 rights act shows only 'token desegregation'; cite office's 'freedom of choice' plan as major drawback
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 13, 1965, covering October 18, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
Ramsey Lewis Trio
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
1965Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)[†]
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik is an Indian Islamic da'i and orator who focuses on comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV. He is a well-known figure in the Islamic world, and while he does not claim to be a follower of any one school of thought in Islam, he is most closely associated with the Salafi school of thought. Naik's Peace TV is banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom under hate speech laws.
1965Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Curtis Stigers is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.
1965Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (born 1874)[†]
Travers John Heagerty, known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable older men.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]