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Freeman sees agr aid best way to win over peasants, int, Saigon; says they should be better informed on how Vietcong hurts them; inspects training schools for pacification teams
Gandhi reptdly asks for immediate resumption of aid
museum lends NYC City Hall 75-yr-old cherry wood banquet table
to retire as World Council of Churches gen sec; illus
Named special counsel by Pres Johnson, press conf
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 9, 1966, covering February 12, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1966Greg Carberry, Australian rugby league player[†]
Greg Carberry is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. Carberry played for the Illawarra Steelers and Cronulla Sharks in the NSWRL competition. His position of choice was wing.
1966Paul Crook, American musician, songwriter, and producer[†]
Paul Crook is an American guitarist known for recording and performing with Meat Loaf. He has also recorded and toured with Anthrax, Sebastian Bach and Marya Roxx.
1966Lochlyn Munro, Canadian actor[†]
Lochlyn Munro is a Canadian actor. His most notable film roles include A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Scary Movie (2000), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), White Chicks (2004), The Predator (2018) and Cosmic Sin (2021). For television, he is perhaps best known for his roles in the Canadian series Northwood, supernatural drama Charmed, teen drama Riverdale, and the DC comics series Peacemaker (2022).
1966Rabbi Morris Adler is fatally shot by a disgruntled congregant at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, United States.[†]
On February 12, 1966, Richard Wishnetsky entered Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, during weekly Shabbat services and, brandishing a firearm, ordered everyone except Rabbi Morris Adler off the synagogue's bimah. After condemning the congregation, Wishnetsky shot Adler and himself.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]