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De Rudder in coma since operation; DeBakey says he may have suffered brain damage; hosp stops calling device 'artificial heart'; hosp and DeBakey silent on criticism of wide publicity given operation
truck load of untaxed cigarettes, 3 smugglers seized, NYC; police trap described; illus
2 accused of masterminding parking meter looting ring found to have printing plates for counterfeiting NYS cigarette tax stamps when seized in Cleveland
Uneasy over outcome of S Vietnamese natl election, int by P Kalischer
$40,000-100,000 worth of paintings by J F Millet, Courbet and T Rousseau stolen from Barbizon, France, museum
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1966, covering April 23, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Nancy Sinatra
1966Jörg Deisinger, German bass player[†]
Joerg Deisinger is a German photographer, musician and the former bassist and a founding member of the German 1980s heavy metal band Bonfire.
1966Matt Freeman, American bass player[†]
Roger Matthew Freeman, also known as Matt McCall is an American musician. He is best known for his bass work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy, Rancid and as the frontman of Devil's Brigade.
1966Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster (died 1999)[†]
Lembit Oll was an Estonian chess grandmaster.
1966George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (born 1893)[†]
George Ohsawa was a Japanese author and proponent of alternative medicine who was the founder of the macrobiotic diet. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of Musagendo Sakurazawa, Nyoiti Sakurazawa, and Yukikazu Sakurazawa. He also used the French first name Georges while living in France, and his name is sometimes also given this spelling. He wrote about 300 books in Japanese and 20 in French. He defined health on the basis of seven criteria: lack of fatigue, good appetite, good sleep, good memory, good humour, precision of thought and action, and gratitude.
1966Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.[†]
Aeroflot Flight 2723 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Bina International Airport to Makhachkala Airport. On 23 April 1966 the Ilyushin Il-14 operating the route ditched in the Caspian Sea following unexplained engine problems. None of the 33 on board survived.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]