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surveys on how Medicare and NYS med benefits programs will operate in NYC and in NYS and reactions to them
Illia dismisses army comdr Lt Gen Pistarini after latter forces War Min Castro Sanchez to resign; Pistarini resists; troops, on his orders, take control of natl communications; soldiers move into Illia home, Olivos suburb of BA, officially to strengthen guard; Pres aide repts troops marching on BA to seize Govt House; Illia meets with Cabinet; Pistarini arrests Maj Gen Coro, key Illia supporter; charges he and Castro illegally met with Peronist leaders
US planes attack large underground fuel dump, 1st attack on Yenhau petroleum storage area; map
Repr Celler backs Kelly
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 1966, covering June 28, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
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1966Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator (died 2019)[†]
Peeter Allik was an Estonian artist and Surrealist.
1966Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Robert Joseph Bare Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
1966John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter[†]
John Paul Cusack is an American actor. With a career spanning over four decades, he has appeared in over 80 films. He began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). Transitioning from his teen idol image, he went on to appear in a variety of genres, such as the crime thrillers The Grifters (1990) and The Paperboy (2012), the black comedies Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), and the psychological horror film 1408 (2007).
1966Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress[†]
Mary Stuart Masterson is an American actress and director. After making her acting debut as a child in The Stepford Wives (1975), Masterson took a ten-year hiatus to focus on her education. Her early film roles include Heaven Help Us (1985), At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), and Chances Are (1989). Her performance in the film Immediate Family (1989) won her the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she earned additional praise for her roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993).
1966Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1890)[†]
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad, was a highly influential Turkish sociologist, Turkologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey. A descendant of the prominent Köprülü family, Fuat Köprülü was a key figure in the intersection of scholarship and politics in early 20th century Turkey.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]