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Comr Barnes urges license renewals be denied NYC parking scofflaws
blizzard hits E Coast; NYC gets 7-in fall; illus; snow emergency declared; 9 deaths in met area laid to storm; city gets 5,218 no-heat complaints; NYS Legis cancels session; Thruway from Albany to Buffalo and entire length of Penna Tpk closed; other effects
says ch cannot be vanquished by temporal power, ser, Czestochowa; congregation of thousands shouts 'Long may he live!' as Wyszynski leaves pulpit, 1st such demonstration within memory in Polish ch; he defends bishops' call for reconciliation among all nations
N Vietnamese among those fighting in Binhdinh Prov; 4 major US mil operations under way; S Vietnamese conduct 42 operations; enemy troops harass several S Vietnam outposts, overrun agr settlement, decapitate RC priest, execute 5 civilians, Thanhtri, Kientuong Prov; several USMC bns land, Quangngai Prov; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 26, 1966, covering January 31, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herman's Hermits
1966Dexter Fletcher, English actor and director[†]
Dexter Fletcher is an English film director and actor. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as well as in television shows such as the comedy drama Hotel Babylon and the HBO series Band of Brothers and, earlier in his career, starred as Spike Thomson in the comedy drama Press Gang. His earliest acting role was playing Baby Face in the 1976 film Bugsy Malone.
1966Thant Myint-U, Myanmar historian, diplomat, conservationist, and former presidential advisor.[†]
Thant Myint-U is an historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, former UN official, former Myanmar peace process mediator, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has authored five books, including The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma and Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia. He founded the Yangon Heritage Trust in 2012 to protect built heritage and promote urban planning in the Burmese commercial capital of Yangon. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge and United Nations Special Adviser on Humanitarian Diplomacy.
1966Arthur Percival, English general (born 1887)[†]
Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, was a British Army officer. He saw service in the First World War and built a successful military career during the interwar period, but is best known for his defeat in the Second World War, when Percival commanded British Commonwealth forces during the Malayan campaign, which culminated in a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Singapore.
1966The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]