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Supt Donovan asks record $271.9-million bldg budget, '67-68, to help implement conversion of system to intermediate and comprehensive schools to spur integration
Lindsay warns that if Legis fails to approve tax program city faces 10% cut in activities
Baldwin series on missiles-vs-manned bombers dispute
Cernan floats in space record 2 hrs 9 mins; drawings of maneuver; is forced to return to spacecraft 17 mins earlier than planned when helmet visor fogs and radio communication is garbled; unable to test back pack with own oxygen supply and maneuverying rockets; draws oxygen from 25-ft umbilical line; repts working in space '4 to 5 times harder' than expected; NASA officials unable to explain visor fogging; say Cernan's feat shows man's ability to remain outside spacecraft long time without disorientation; craft put into lower orbit in preparation for re-entry
electoral-law drafting comm recommends that constituent assembly to be elected in Sept be given legis functions and allowed to transform self into natl assembly; other proposals; deadline for junta to add 10 civilian members nears; move doubted; Tam Chau reptdly has agreed to withdraw resignation, will return to Saigon
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1966, covering June 6, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
1966Sophie Jamal, Canadian endocrinologist involved in scientific misconduct[†]
Abida Sophie Jamal is a Canadian endocrinologist and former osteoporosis researcher who was at the centre of a scientific misconduct case in the mid-to-late 2010s. Jamal published a high-profile paper suggesting that the heart medication nitroglycerin was a treatment for osteoporosis, and was later demonstrated to have misrepresented her results. She received a lifetime ban from receiving funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was named directly in their disclosure report, becoming the first person mentioned by name by the institute for scientific misconduct. Jamal was later stripped of her medical license for two years, regaining it in a controversial 3–2 decision.
1966Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer[†]
Anthony Yeboah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1966March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category.[†]
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]