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March 5, 1966

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Blizzard Whips Northern Plains; Tornado Death Toll Reaches 62; Dakota Declares Disaster

By Unknown Author

storm with winds of vp to 98 mph hits Northern Plains and upper Middle West; map; scores of communities isolated, thousands of motorists stranded, rrs stalled; ND declared disaster area; SD Natl Guard helps evacuate families left without elec; Minn asks curb on travel; Grand Forks (SD) Herald unable to appear 1st time in 50 yrs; storm moves to Canada; 10-ft drifts, Winnipeg

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JOHNSON EXPANDS POWERS OF RUSK IN AFFAIRS ABROAD; Secretary Named 'Director' of All Actions Affecting 2 or More U.S. Agencies MILITARY NOT INCLUDED Change in Setup May Make State Department a Focus of Foreign Policy Debate

By Max Frankel Special To the New York Times

Johnson names Rusk dir of all overseas operations affecting 2 or more depts; dept to be decisive voice in all interdept operations abroad except mil operations; move makes dept instead of White House main area of policy debate; other depts will have right of appeal when overruled by State; Under Sec Ball to be chmn of new Sr Interdept Group; system described

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 1966, covering March 5, 1966.

  1. 1
    Album cover for !!Going Places!! by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    !!Going Places!!

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    21
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    Album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass

    Whipped Cream & Other Delights

    Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass

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    1
    Peak
    1
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    43
  3. 3
    Album cover for Rubber Soul by The Beatles

    Rubber Soul

    The Beatles

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    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Sound Of Music by Soundtrack

    The Sound Of Music

    Soundtrack

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    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    51
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    Album cover for September Of My Years by Frank Sinatra

    September Of My Years

    Frank Sinatra

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    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    29

Notable Births

Oh Eun-sun

1966Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer[†]

Oh Eun-sun is a South Korean mountaineer. She was the first Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits. On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna; upon doing so, she claimed to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, which would have made her the first woman to achieve this feat. However, her claim to have ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts. Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga, and so the Korean Alpine Federation ruled that she had not summited. The mountaineering site ExplorersWeb officially considers the Basque Edurne Pasaban as the first woman to have successfully climbed all fourteen peaks.

1966Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]

Robert H. Halkidis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.

Michael Irvin

1966Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor[†]

Michael Jerome Irvin is an American sports commentator and former professional football player. He played his entire 12-year career as a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). In 2007, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Aasif Mandvi

1966Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter[†]

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is an English–American actor, comedian and writer. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO comedy series The Brink and the CBS/Paramount+ psychological drama Evil. His film roles include playing Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 and Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender. His stage work includes appearing on Broadway as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma! and in productions of Disgraced (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

Zachary Stevens

1966Zachary Stevens, American singer-songwriter[†]

Zachary Trussell, known professionally as Zachary "Zak" Stevens, is an American singer, best known as the second lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Savatage. He currently performs with the heavy metal bands Circle II Circle and Archon Angel. Stevens has a degree in psychology, but is not a practicing psychologist.

Notable Deaths

Anna Akhmatova

1966Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (born 1889)[†]

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966.

Historical Events

BOAC Flight 911

1966BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.[†]

BOAC Flight 911 was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near Mount Fuji in Japan on 5 March 1966, with the loss of all 113 passengers and 11 crew members. The Boeing 707 flying the route disintegrated mid-air shortly after departing from Tokyo Haneda Airport as a result of severe clear-air turbulence.

Historical Context for March 5, 1966

In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]