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ed scores Rockefeller opposition to Lindsay efforts to resolve fiscal crisis
Meredith int, says he will never again walk through Miss unarmed; regrets he was unarmed at time of shooting; asks to see NY Times reporter to draw attention to warm reception given him by 200-300 Negroes, Hernando; his lawyer earlier read his statement explaining lack of more supporters on original march
14 members split at Mins Council conf on how to negotiate with French; Belgian Min Harmel suggests talks within framework of Permanent Council after France rejects talks with 5-power com; agrees to shelve proposal after strong pressure from US, GB and W Ger; Couve de Murville says France will talk with Gers on troops legal status and to other allies on mil problems; holds talks at diplomatic level unnecessary
Sen, Assembly pass conflicting bills; neither house will pass other's; major difference is that Repub bill would impose stiff penalities on unions that strike while Dem bill would not; both would scrap Condon-Wadlin Act; Brydges sees Dems pawns of AFL-CIO; Sen Lentol holds Repubs think employes have no rights
launching preparations begun; Comdr Young and Maj Collins are crew
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1966, covering June 8, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
1966Julianna Margulies, American actress[†]
Julianna Margulies is an American actress. After several small television roles, Margulies received wide recognition for her starring role as Carol Hathaway in the NBC medical drama series ER, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to four Golden Globe Award nominations. In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the CBS legal drama series The Good Wife (2009–2016). Her performance garnered critical acclaim, winning an additional two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Television Critics Association Award.
1966Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (born 1890)[†]
Anton Melik was a Slovene geographer.
1966An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.[†]
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF), it was developed into an all-weather multirole aircraft in the early 1960s and extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. It was also produced under license by other nations and saw widespread service outside the United States.
1966Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.[†]
Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]