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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 29, 1965, covering December 29, 1965.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys
Herman's Hermits
Elvis Presley
Barbra Streisand
Eddy Arnold
1965Dexter Holland, American musician, singer, songwriter, and biologist[â ]
Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and composer, and only constant member of the punk rock band the Offspring. He co-founded with former bandmate Greg K. the record label Nitro Records, which he previously owned. Holland holds a PhD in molecular biology.
1965John Newton, American actor[â ]
John Haymes Newton is an American former actor. He is known for his regular roles on the television programs Superboy as Clark Kent in the show's first season and as Ryan McBride on the soap opera Melrose Place. He is currently focused on energy healing practices.
1965Martin Offiah, English rugby league player and sportscaster[â ]
Martin Nwokocha Offiah MBE ; born 29 December 1965) is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Offiah was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2013. He scored over 500 tries during his rugby league career, making him the third-highest try scorer of all time, and now features in a statue of great rugby league players outside Wembley Stadium.
1965Frank Nugent, American screenwriter, journalist and film reviewer (born 1908)[â ]
Frank Stanley Nugent was an American screenwriter, journalist, and film reviewer. He wrote 21 film scripts, 11 for director John Ford. He wrote almost a thousand reviews for The New York Times before leaving journalism for Hollywood. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The Writers Guild of America, West ranks his screenplay for The Searchers (1956) among the top 101 screenplays of all time.
1965KÅsaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (born 1886)[â ]
KÅsaku Yamada was a Japanese composer and conductor.
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Lindsay asks him to remain on interim basis
Humphrey, in Tokyo, asks Sato for help of Japan 'or any other Govt' in bringing about peace; reptdly tells Sato of US efforts to arrange conf; gives him document outlining 190 separate talks Rusk held with diplomats to this end; Tokyo press raises questions about US policy; Tass repts top-level USSR delegation, headed by A N Shelepin, will leave shortly for Hanoi on unspecified mission; speculation; Western diplomats, Moscow, says USSR quietly urges N Vietnam to accept US offer to negotiate, that China urges opposite course
Moses reluctantly shelves plan to build Bushwick Expressway as Queens link for 3d tube of Queens-Midtown Tunnel; says work on tube will start soon and link will be 'ultimately indispensable'; cites defense needs
works; confs with Sec McNamara; talks by phone with other top advisers
Vietcong proposes cease-fire during Vietnamese lunar New Yr celebrations, Jan 20-23; says S Vietnamese soldiers and officials may visit families even in Vietcong-controlled areas as long as they carry no weapons and violate no rules; proposal omits mention of US and allied forces in S Vietnam
cut in Fed aid to educ because of Vietnam war costs seen now to Lindsay, who seeks more Fed aid
Wagner in farewell s, sees clashing needs for improvements and for revenue to finance them extending into next 4 yrs; stresses growing revenue need
US bans export of shotguns and shells to Rhodesia
resigns as Foreign Min
Adm sources reveal that US informed N Vietnam that pause in bombing is intended as 'feeler' towards peace talks; White House staff silent; press inquiries become more insistent; officials apologetic for silence; Johnson seen in full control of situation, with few State Dept officials fully informed; he confs with McNamara in Tex, with Rusk, Under Sec Ball and McG Bundy by phone; State Dept tries to clarify its denial of repts that Nguyen Cao Ky told Lodge he would not participate in peace talks
Lindsay Adm to seek Fed funds earmarked for city hwys to subsidize transit