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Treas Dept urges self-employed individuals to pay taxes qrly rather than once at yr-end; Sec Fowler sees financial burden eased
police club demonstrators after about 300 persons, mainly students, block busy intersections in downtown Birmingham and Bessemer; no serious injuries reptd; 3 Fed judges enjoin SCLC and Williams from further use of hs students in protests; rights Leaders earlier Led students in protests; rights leaders earlier led students to other schools; are barred at RC school; Birmingham Negro leaders reptdly vote 'cautious support' for protests; 200 demonstrators later march without incident
Apptmt as Housing and Urban Development Dept Sec announced by Pres Johnson, press conf; Weaver will be 1st Negro Cabinet member; illus
Washington analysts believe Shelepin urged N Vietnam not to expect mil victory and not to overtook chances if obtaining objectives through negotiations
Palmer, A E Jr, Transportation Council Chmn
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 12, 1966, covering January 14, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Terry Angus, English footballer[†]
Terence Norman Angus is an English retired professional footballer who played as a central defender.
1966Marko Hietala, Finnish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer[†]
Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer and lyricist for the heavy metal band Tarot.
1966Nadia Maftouni, Iranian philosopher[†]
Nadia Maftouni is an Iranian academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Farabian, Avicennian and Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works. She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and Islamic History. She is a professor at the University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly. She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein Nuri when he was already in a wheelchair.
1966Dan Schneider, American TV producer[†]
Daniel James Schneider is an American television producer, screenwriter, and actor. He created and produced a string of children's shows on Nickelodeon from 1994 to 2019. In the years since 2018, he has faced significant media coverage and controversy regarding allegations of inappropriate behavior.
1966Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (born 1906)[†]
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space, Voskhod 1, and the first person, Alexei Leonov, to conduct a spacewalk.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]