On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 19, 1966, covering January 23, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herman's Hermits
Eddy Arnold
Frank Sinatra
Roger Miller
Barbra Streisand
1966Damien Hardman, Australian surfer[†]
Damien Hardman, known as The Iceman, is an Australian former surfer from Sydney. He won the Rip Curl Pro twice in 1988 and 1993, and was runner-up three times in 1989, 1991 and 1997, and in 1987/88 and 1991 he won the ASP World Tour. In 1999, he was inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame in 1999.
1966Haywoode Workman, American basketball player and referee[†]
Haywoode Wilvon Workman is an American former basketball player who is a referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1966T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1895)[†]
Thambaiyah Mudaliyar Sabaratnam was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
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PORS AND ILLUS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-- Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned against a permanent halt in the bombing of North Vietnam.
Nguyen Van Thieu reptdly admits US and S Vietnam ese bomb Ho Chi Minh Trail in E Laos; Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma believed to have given tacit approval to efforts to halt infiltration from N Vietnam into S Vietnam on condition that US and allies refrain from discussing matter officially
minor Vietcong attacks continue
Comr Hoving confs with club officials on changes in '61 pact to give NYC more revenue from Shea Stadium; silent on pact renegotiation
Hon, Women's City Club of NY
Dems offer program proposing 94 legis items in 21 categories to meet needs they say Rockefeller's 'skeletal election-yr program' neglects; details; Travia, Zaretzki comment
State Com removes 'white supremacy' slogan from ballot emblem over protests of segregationists; move seen bid for Negro support; also seen step toward realliance with natl party and rebuke to Gov Wallace; old emblem illus
Schenectady County dinner; NYC City Council Pres O'Connor s
Natl Council of Chs to open drive to attract church-goers, Columbus, Ohio, with 6 color TV spot announcements on theme 'keep in circulation rumor that God is alive'; ads, developed by United Presb Ch in USA, are offered for use by councils of chs in major areas; Columbus RC Archdiocese to publicize them as ecumenical gesture; illus; success of Presb ch radio commercials noted
vast US build-up in Thailand soon if war continues (H W Baldwin rept); US maintains supplies to equip thousands of troops should need arise; US planes operating from 5 Thai bases make air raids against N Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos
The metropolitan area's first substantial snowfall of the season accumulated on city and suburban streets last night and early this morning.