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Queens Dist Atty Hentel says he is probing 'intimations' of kickback payments to party by asst dist attys when O'Connor was Queens Dist Atty
Pope delivers Easter message, St Peter's Sq; announces Resurrection in 9 languages; celebrates mass, Ch of San Stefano and St Peter's
12,000 soft coal miners strike, W Va, Ohio, Penna and Ill, without UMW authorization; union spokesman says they will not be ordered back
Waugh, Evelyn A St J
Gay Brewer, Tommy Jacobs and Jack Nicklaus finished in a three-way tie yesterday at the end of the regulation 72 holes of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta, Ga.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 1966, covering April 11, 1966.
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Nancy Sinatra
1966Steve Scarsone, American baseball player and manager[†]
Steven Wayne Scarsone is an American former professional baseball infielder and former minor league manager. He serves on the Oakland Athletics' Player Development staff as travelling minor league instructor. He played all or parts of seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1992 and 1999 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, and Kansas City Royals.
1966Shin Seung-hun, South Korean singer-songwriter[†]
Shin Seung-hun is a South Korean singer-songwriter who was known in the 1990s as the "Emperor of Ballads." He debuted in 1990 with the hit song, "Reflection of You in Your Smile," and has since released 12 studio albums. Before 2020, he held the record for the most albums sold by one artist in South Korea with 17 million albums sold over his career.
1966Lisa Stansfield, English singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Lisa Jane Stansfield is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her career began in 1980 when she won the singing competition Search for a Star. After appearances in various television shows and releasing her first singles, Stansfield, along with Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, formed Blue Zone in 1983. The band released several singles and one album, but after the success of Coldcut's "People Hold On" in 1989, on which Stansfield was featured, the focus was placed on her solo career.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]