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Lindsay adm reptdly seeks to have civilians conduct Civilian Complaint Rev Bd hearings; details; NAACP aide R L Carter sees moves as effort to 'grapple with basic problem'; stresses need for civilian investigative process
US bombs suspected guerrilla positions within 4 mi of downtown Saigon; marines fail to contact enemy in search outside city; US death toll since Jan '61 at 3,047; '66 toll at 1,427; Wheeler repts over 13,000 enemy killed in '66
Govt troops fight bloody st battle with youthful rioters, Dalat; 1 militiaman reptd stoned to death, 3 youths shot; other demonstrators injured; curfew imposed
BLS Consumer Price Index up 0.7%, Mar
NYSE govs bd weighs plan whereby all facilities to consummate taxable stock transactions would be set up out of NYS to avoid transfer taxes
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1966, covering April 22, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Nancy Sinatra
1966Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager[†]
Michael Robert "Mickey" Morandini, is an American former professional baseball second baseman and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Toronto Blue Jays. His career highlights include selection as a 1995 National League (NL) All-Star, playing for the Phillies in the 1993 NL Championship Series and World Series, and appearing for the Cubs in the 1998 NL Division Series.
1966Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor[†]
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Negan in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2016–2022) and its spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present), for both of which he has received critical acclaim. He has also appeared in television roles such as John Winchester in the CW fantasy horror series Supernatural, Denny Duquette in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2006–2009), Jason Crouse in the CBS political drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016), Joe Kessler in the Amazon Prime Video adult superhero series' The Boys (2024–present), and Conquest in Invincible (2025–present), as well as film roles including William Gallagher in P.S. I Love You (2007), the Comedian in the superhero film Watchmen (2009), Clay in The Losers (2010), Sgt. Maj Andrew Tanner in Red Dawn (2012), and Agent Harvey Russell in Rampage (2018). He also starred as a pivotal character in the History Channel's miniseries about the war with Mexico for the creation of Texas, Texas Rising (2015).
1966American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.[†]
American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D was a flight operated on a U.S. Military Air Command contract from Monterey Regional Airport in California to Columbus Airport in Georgia, via Ardmore Municipal Airport, Oklahoma. On April 22, 1966, while approaching Runway 8 at Ardmore, the aircraft overshot the runway and crashed into a hill, bursting into flames. Eighty-three of the 98 passengers and crew on board died as a result of the accident.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]