On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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final preparations; elec problem in Atlas rocket which will launch Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) corrected; ATDA illus
1,000 students sack and burn US consulate, burn adjacent staff residence, Hue; rip down Johnson pors, carry off 2 Amer flags; S Vietnamese army co flees as students approach; anti-Govt students agree to close Hue radio station after Mayor Phan Van Khoa threatens to fake it by force; refuse to dismantle rd blocks, surrender weapons; Maj Gen Hoang Xuan Lam installed as new I Corps Comdr, Danang; former comdr Gen Huynh Van Cao leaves US mil hq sanctuary, is flown to Saigon
Renault to rebuild Moskvich plant, Moscow, increasing output fourfold to 300,000-350,000 by '70
Mangum says city submitted summer program to Office of Econ Opportunity (OEO) in 'lamentable shape'; funding methods for it raise new difficulties; city aides planned $10.5-million program but Fed aides say only $6.5-million is available and city must produce additional $4-million from $36-million OEO has allocated for yr-round program; Mangum names self, T M Bony, F O R Hayes, Dr S D Proctor, G Nicolau to panel to expedite city program; Lindsay names Dumpson, Sviridoff, R S Dowdy, S L Gardner, D H Elliott to work with them
Lindsay adm holds raising transit fare by 5¢ or 10¢ will not balance budget if revenues from Travia compromise tax plan remain at $316-million; Lindsay to agree to cut $100-million in fiscal reforms if Travia will raise income tax yield
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1966, covering June 1, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
1966Greg Schiano, American football player and coach[†]
Gregory Edward Schiano is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Rutgers University, a position he held from 2001 to 2011 and resumed before the 2020 season. Schiano has the most wins in program history as head football coach of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team. He also served as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 2012 to 2013.
1966Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (born 1873)[†]
George Vitelle "Papa Jack" Laine was an American musician and a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish–American War to World War I. He was often credited for training many musicians who would later become successful in jazz music.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]