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CAPE KENNEDY, Saturday, Dec. 4 -- Technicians worked through the night making last-minute preparations for the scheduled start this afternoon of the nation's most ambitious space mission to date -- a rendezvous in orbit by two manned spacecraft.
Pope found guilty; to be executed Mar 3; illus
terrorists shoot way into Amer mil hotel, Metropole, Saigon, set off huge bomb; kill 2 Amer, 1 NZ soldier and 8 Vietnamese civilians including 4 women; injure 100 others including 12 children; deadly mine timed to go off before attack on Metropole found and disarmed; grenade tossed into nearby Amer mil hotel prior to big blast fails to go off; map
after talks with Negro leaders, agrees to hire Negroes, name Negro to school bd, give Negroes equal voice in antipoverty program
US reptdly has decided to intensify air strikes against Communist targets in SE Laos to curb N Vietnam infiltration along Ho Chi Minh Trail; N Vietnam reptdly aware of move, stockpiles from Laos into S Vietnam highlands, builds 'motorable rd' from Tchepone to S Vietnam border; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 1, 1965, covering December 4, 1965.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1965Álex de la Iglesia, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist.
1965Shaun Hollamby, English race car driver and businessman[†]
Shaun Scott Hollamby is a British TV Director/Producer who was a racing driver and race team owner. He was the managing director of AmD Tuning, a performance tuning company and motor racing team based in West Thurrock, Essex. He also currently competes in a part-time effort in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and Historic F3 and FFord.
1965Ulf Kirsten, German footballer and manager[†]
Ulf Kirsten is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed Der Schwatte, he is the first player in history to reach a total 100 caps playing with two different national teams. Kirsten's biggest success was the victory of the 1992–93 DFB-Pokal.
1965Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.[†]
Gemini 7 was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twentieth crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line. The crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. Their spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]