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HR, 312-63, passes higher educ bill, including provision for natl teachers corps; defeats Repub bid to delete provision, 226-152; Sen approves bill by voice vote
Beame scores NYC Presb Ch on what he calls endorsement of Lindsay, press conf; says he himself does not want votes because he is Jewish; unhappy about Powell's statement; says Lindsay attacked Fed antipoverty program, s, midtown rally; backed by Newspaper and Mail Deliverers, by City Fusion party; schedule curbed because of cold
Coll backs student-initiated project to rate faculty members; to share costs; some faculty opposition noted
demonstrations supporting US policy planned throughout US as reaction to protests; Yale U students urge mass meeting when Vice Pres Humphrey visits; Troy seeks permit for parade; Gen Eisenhower says he is asked to back orgn supporting Vietnam war, int, Culpeper, Va; again backs US policy, deplores protests; USMC commandant Greene challenges demonstrators to volunteer for civilian humanitarian programs in SE Asia; Dodd sees protests 'tantamount to open insurrection,' but favors free discussion; Selective Service Dir Hershey calls demonstrators 'trifling minority,' mostly 'misguided kids,'
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 20, 1965, covering October 21, 1965.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
Ramsey Lewis Trio
1965Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
Jon Andoni Goikoetxea Lasa, often known as Goiko, is a Spanish retired footballer.
1965Horace Hogan, American wrestler[†]
Michael Allan Bollea is an American retired professional wrestler. The nephew of fellow wrestler Hulk Hogan, he is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s under the ring name Horace Hogan.
1965Hisashi Imai, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Hisashi Imai is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. Following the October 2023 death of vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, Imai began sharing lead vocal duties in the band with fellow guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino. He has also performed in side-projects such as the duo Schaft with Soft Ballet member Maki Fujii, the supergroup Schwein, and the rock trio Lucy. Imai is known for his visual aesthetics, and Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement.
1965Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (born 1926)[†]
William Patton Black Jr. was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll. He played in Elvis Presley's early trio, The Blue Moon Boys. Black later formed Bill Black's Combo.
1965Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.[†]
Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a long-period comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on 18 September 1965, the first calculations of its orbit suggested that on October 21, it would pass just 450,000 km (280,000 mi) above the Sun's surface, and would probably become extremely bright.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]