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March 10, 1966

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PARIS DUE TO ACT SOON ON REMOVING TROOPS FROM NATO; Says It Sees No Chance of Talks Revising Alliance Deadline Set for '67 g Shipment\02-08-01\nyt\1960's\nyt-1966-03-16\nyt-1966-03-16.zonPARIS DUE TO ACT SOON OVER NATO Surprise in Washington

By Henry Tanner Special To the New York Times

French Govt announces in effect that it will withdraw all French forces and officers from integrated commands, statement asserting it will unilaterally take all measures necessary to reestablish French 'full sovereignty' in NATO; French sources say withdrawal will be completed within yr; Govt reptdly confident it can keep French forces in Ger under French control through bilateral accord; Govt statement issued after Cabinet conf presided over by de Gaulle

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India Yielding to Sikh Demand For a Punjabi-Speaking State; Leaders of the Congress Party Commit New Delhi to Move After Suicide Threats INDIA IS YIELDING TO SIKHS ON STATE

By Unknown Author

Cong party leaders yield to Sikh demand for separate Punjabi-speaking state, direct Govt to form it out of Punjab State where Hindi and Punjabi are now spoken; Punjabi is only one of 13 languages recognized in const that is not also official language of a particular state; party decision is binding on Govt; linked to Sikh leader S F Singh threat of fast and immolation; Hindu Jan Sangh party leaders charge decision is 'abject surrender to separatism'; party sec Y Sharma announces counter-fast; map

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 1966, covering March 10, 1966.

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    Album cover for Ballads Of The Green Berets by SSgt Barry Sadler

    Ballads Of The Green Berets

    SSgt Barry Sadler

    Last week
    53
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
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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

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    44
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    Album cover for !!Going Places!! by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    !!Going Places!!

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    22
  4. 4
    Album cover for Rubber Soul by The Beatles

    Rubber Soul

    The Beatles

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
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    12
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    Album cover for The Sound Of Music by Soundtrack

    The Sound Of Music

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    52

Notable Births

Edie Brickell

1966Edie Brickell, American singer-songwriter[†]

Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the Billboard albums chart. She is married to singer-songwriter Paul Simon.

Mike Timlin

1966Mike Timlin, American baseball player[†]

Michael August Timlin is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. Timlin played on four World Series championship teams in an 18-year career; the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays, 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, 2004 Boston Red Sox, and 2007 Boston Red Sox.

Notable Deaths

Frits Zernike

1966Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)[†]

Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

Frank O'Connor

1966Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1903)[†]

Frank O'Connor was an Irish author and translator. He wrote poetry, dramatic works, memoirs, journalistic columns and features on aspects of Irish culture and history, criticism, long and short fiction, biography, and travel books. He is most widely known for his more than 150 short stories and for his memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was named in his honour, as is the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship.

Historical Events

South Vietnam

1966Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.[†]

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon, before becoming a republic in 1955, when the southern half of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam. South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957. It was succeeded by the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. In 1976, the Republic of South Vietnam and North Vietnam merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Historical Context for March 10, 1966

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