
1965Chito Martínez, Belizean-American baseball player[†]
Reyenaldo Ignacio "Chito" Martínez was a Belizean Major League Baseball (MLB) player, the first in MLB history to be born in his country.
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In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]

1965Chito Martínez, Belizean-American baseball player[†]
Reyenaldo Ignacio "Chito" Martínez was a Belizean Major League Baseball (MLB) player, the first in MLB history to be born in his country.
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LOS ANGELES -- Even Mrs. Betty Reed, the cook in the executive dining room at North American Aviation's Space and Information Systems division in Downey, Calif., was charting the progress of the astronauts orbiting the earth in the Gemini 6 space vehicle, as she did in previous space probes.
HOUSTON, Dec. 18 -- Dewey Warren passed and ran Tennessee to a 27-6 conquest of Tulsa today in the Bluebonnet Bowl football game, played in a driving rain before a crowd of 40,000.
3 polls see de Gaulle winner with 53.2-55% of vote
police to raise charge for towing away ticketed cars from $10 to $25 and to increase storage fee from $1 to $5 a day; Broderick holds towaway program has not sufficiently improved traffic flow
Gov Rockefeller, replying to Sen R F Kennedy Dec 17 wire charging NYS foregoes opportunities for Fed aid for retarded, says Kennedy acts as 'pol broker': says NYS takes full advantage of Fed aid and has close ties regardless of which party is in power: Kennedy says Rockefeller jeopardizes 'future of children and others for the benefit of his own pol adm'; releases texts of 4 exchs with Rockefeller
gets hon degree, St John's U, NYC
Grau, S A, Comm on Pres Scholars
Sales of US corp bonds in Eur, especially of convertible bonds, seen having possible adverse effect on payments balance
US soldiers ordered to keep off Saigon sts at night because of intensified terrorism; terrorists throw grenade into bachelor officers qrs, injure S Vietnamese police guard and 4 civilians; attack small S Vietnam outposts, Saigon area
small stores in Green Acres center, Valley Stream, NY, fear closing of Lanes, largest unit, will hurt business; illus
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