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AFL-CIO Bldg and Construction Trades Dept leaders reject as 'unworkable' Sec Wirtz plan to submit local disputes to special Govt panel for settlement proposals before taking strike action
US troops, guided by captured N Vietnam bn comdr, fight way through heavy fire into N Vietnam hq, Bongson area; kill 126; 15 Amer dead identified
Sloan, Alf P Jr, 90
J A (Bud) Palmer slated to be comr
Vice Pres Humphrey en route
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 1966, covering February 18, 1966.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1966Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer[†]
Phillip Anthony Jason "Daffy" DeFreitas is an English former cricketer. He played county cricket for Leicestershire, Lancashire and Derbyshire, as well as appearing in 44 Test matches and 103 ODIs. Cricket writer Colin Bateman noted that "DeFreitas was an explosive hitter when the mood took him, an aggressive pace bowler, inclined to pitch everything short and a spectacular fielder". He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup and as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
1966Ryan Routh, American suspected assassin[†]
Ryan Wesley Routh is an American man who attempted to assassinate then-former U.S. president Donald Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign. Routh's motives are currently under investigation.
1966Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and military officer (born 1934)[†]
Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until the advent of Soviet glasnost in the late 1980s. He killed himself on 18 February 1966.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]