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Article notes importance of hwy projects in drive to extend agr frontier into Amazon wilderness W of Araguaia River; map
suggests express bus service on avs; new bus routes listed
E Negron loses grocery store after being boycotted by East Bronx neighbors for aiding white ptl, attacked by mob, July '65, while attempting to arrest Negro youth; illus
N Vietnam, in Nhan Dan article, says there can be no talks with US while it maintains its commitments to Saigon Govt; reply to Rusk-Nguyen Cao Ky communique seen; Gen Gavin holds US mil objectives stretch forces' resources 'beyond reason,' lr to Harper's magazine; warns on China entering war if US applies force needed to win goals; urges permanent end to bombing N Vietnam and limiting mil operations to defense of coastal enclaves; disputes theory that fall of Vietnam would lead to fall of neighboring nations
comment on '65 boom
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 12, 1966, covering January 17, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Trish Johnson, English golfer[†]
Patricia Mary "Trish" Johnson MBE is an English professional golfer. She won three times on the LPGA Tour and 19 times on the Ladies European Tour. As a senior she has won both senior women's major championships, the U.S. Senior Women's Open and the Senior LPGA Championship.
1966Joshua Malina, American actor[†]
Joshua Charles Malina is an American film and stage actor known for playing Will Bailey on the NBC drama The West Wing, Jeremy Goodwin on Sports Night, U.S. Attorney General David Rosen on Scandal, and Caltech President Siebert on The Big Bang Theory.
1966Shabba Ranks, Jamaican rapper, musician, and songwriter[†]
Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon OD, better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Throughout his prominence in his home country as a dancehall artist, he gained popularity in North America with his studio album Just Reality in 1990. He released other studio albums, including As Raw as Ever and X-tra Naked, which both won a Grammy Award as Best Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He is notoriously popular for "Mr. Loverman" and "Ting-A-Ling", which were globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs.
1966Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.[†]
The Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a United States Air Force B-52G bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Spanish village of Palomares in Almería province. The collision destroyed the tanker, killing all four crew members, and caused the bomber to break apart, resulting in the deaths of three of its seven crew members. The B-52G was participating in Operation Chrome Dome, a Cold War airborne alert mission involving continuous flights of nuclear-armed bombers.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]