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WASHINGTON, June 30-- The Government wound up its fiscal year today, having spent more and collected more than in any other year, including those of World War II.
Holds halt in US bombing in N Vietnam will not end war, lr to UN Security Council
US bombs 3 fuel storage areas near Hanoi, also hits 3 radar sites in area; pilots describe June 29 raids on storage tanks; map
Mins Couve de Murville and Gromyko sign 10-yr French-USSR research pact providing, in principle, for launching of French satellite by USSR rocket; pact calls for sharing of data through exchs of students and delegations
Medicare operation discussed; how patients get benefits detailed; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 29, 1966, covering July 1, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
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Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
1966Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach[†]
Enrico Annoni is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1966Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2013)[†]
Shawn Christopher Burr was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. Burr played in the NHL for parts of 16 seasons from 1985 to 2000.
1966Frank Verner, American runner (born 1883)[†]
William Franklyn "Bill" Verner was an American athlete and middle-distance runner who competed in the early twentieth century.
1966The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.[†]
Color television or colour television is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set. It improves on the monochrome or black-and-white television technology, which displays the image in shades of gray (grayscale). Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world upgraded from black-and-white to color transmission between the 1960s and the 1980s. The invention of color television standards was an important part of the history and technology of television.
1966The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (The known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.[†]
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, formerly the Second Artillery Corps, is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and controls China's arsenal of land-based ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missiles—both nuclear and conventional. The armed service branch was established on 1 July 1966 and made its first public appearance on 1 October 1984. The headquarters for operations is located at Qinghe, Beijing. The PLARF is under the direct command of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission (CMC).
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]