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USAF urges development of improved capability missile (ICM), giant ICBM with greatly increased pay load capacity enabling it to carry variety of devices to thwart enemy radar and defenses; development cost put at $1-billion
Govt troops cordon off Tri Quang's hosp room; he is in 13th day of hunger strike and reptdly growing weaker
Wynn, Ed (I E Leopold)
rules city must hon traditional early closing in '66, that regular hrs cannot be restored without negotiation with unions; Costello says city will raise question in new contract talks; Gotbaum, Soc Service Workers pres Mage comment
Arnold Palmer's five-stroke lead with only four holes to go was overcome by Billy Casper yesterday, forcing the United States Open golf championship into an 18-hole playoff today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 15, 1966, covering June 20, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter[ā ]
Boaz Yakin is an Israeli-American screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City. He has written screenplays to films like The Rookie, Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Now You See Me, and has directed the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans and the 2012 Jason Statham action film Safe. As a producer he has collaborated frequently with filmmaker Eli Roth and served as executive producer for the first two entries in the Hostel franchise.
1966Georges LemaĆ®tre, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1894)[ā ]
Georges Henri Joseph Ćdouard LemaĆ®tre was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational HubbleāLemaĆ®tre law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. That work led LemaĆ®tre to propose what he called the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", now regarded as the first formulation of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[ā ]