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USSR Govt vetoes Soviet Sciences Acad inv to US research ship Silas Bent to visit USSR to participate in UNESCO-sponsored Internatl Oceanographic Cong opening in Moscow May 30; charges ship is USN craft despite civilian crew; US protests; ship described
BLS repts automatic wage rises as high as 4¢ an hr, Apr, to keep pace with Consumer Price Index increases
Pres Johnson confs with Vice Pres Humphrey, Secs Rusk and McNamara, Under Sec Ball, W W Rostow and D Acheson on forthcoming Mins Council conf, Brussels
Health and Hosps Depts drs back pub health nurses, pledge not to cross picket lines; talks deadlocked; Professional Pub Health Nurses Assn vainly waits for call to meet with Tarshis; Pub Health Nursing Bur dir McFadden retires to protest deadlock
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 18, 1966, covering May 21, 1966.
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
1966Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright[†]
Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and artist. She is known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2011). Between 2014 and 2018, Edelstein starred as Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce.
1966Tatyana Ledovskaya, Belarusian hurdler[†]
Tatyana Mikhailovna Ledovskaya is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles. She represented the Soviet Union and later Belarus, training in Minsk.
1966The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.[†]
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles. It declared a ceasefire in 1994 and officially ended its campaign in 2007, although some of its members have continued to engage in violence and criminal activities. The group is a proscribed organisation and is on the terrorist organisation list of the United Kingdom.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]