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Lindsay to warn NYS Legis to grant tax powers he needs or city will face fiscal chaos
AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Dept assails guidelines
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 Dean Rusk, the Georgia hillbilly who became a Rhodes scholar, showed before the Senate and the country today the bearing of a man of forti tude and forbearance that he has presented for five uncontroversial years as Secretary of State.
Bldg Inspectors Assn aide sees dept morale at 'rock bottom,'
Pors and illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 1966, covering February 19, 1966.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Barbra Streisand
1966Justine Bateman, American actress and producer[†]
Justine Bateman is an American filmmaker, author and former actress. Her acting work included Family Ties, Satisfaction, Men Behaving Badly, The TV Set, Desperate Housewives, and Californication. Her feature film directorial debut, Violet, starring Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey, and Justin Theroux, premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Bateman also wrote, directed and produced the film short Five Minutes, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. She regularly makes guest appearances on USA television including Fox News and Today and is the author of the books Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (2018) and Face: One Square Foot of Skin (2021).
1966Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player and coach[†]
Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch tennis coach and a former professional player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He has won 54 doubles titles, including six Grand Slam titles, five with Jacco Eltingh, and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
1966Eduardo Xol, American designer and author (died 2024)[†]
Eduardo Torres Xol was an American television personality, designer, entertainer, social activist and businessman. He was most known to U.S. television audiences for his work as a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition which formerly aired on ABC.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]