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Natl Sciences Acad rept on effect of fat in Amer diet on human health, particularly on heart and circulatory system, urges more emphasis on proper diet and proper exercise in view of evidence that atherosclerosis begins to develop early in life
2 downed US airmen rescued off coast amid Communist fire; US raids continue
replies in open lr in Newsday made available to all news media; blames war on Communist China leader Mao Tse-tung and those nations who supply weapons to Communists; Steinbeck's son is with US forces in Vietnam
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NYC Fire Dept repts record false alarms, June and July 1-7; repts only 48 false alarms in 2 mos on boxes equipped with new whistle device, compared with 118 before installation
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1966, covering July 11, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Frank Sinatra
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
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1966Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author[†]
Nadeem Aslam FRSL is a British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".
1966Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2021)[†]
Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989. By 2023, Berserk had over 60 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2002, Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
1966Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach[†]
Rodney Strickland is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is currently the head coach at Long Island University. Prior to LIU, he served as the program manager for the NBA G League's professional path. Strickland played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons, earning All-American honors. He had a long career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing from 1988 to 2005. Strickland was an assistant coach for the South Florida Bulls, under Orlando Antigua from 2014 to 2017. He formerly served in an administrative role for the University of Kentucky basketball team under head coach John Calipari and was the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis under Calipari. He is the godfather of current NBA player Kyrie Irving. Strickland was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame with the Class of 2008.
1966Ricky Warwick, Northern Irish musician[†]
Ricky Warwick is a Northern Irish musician and the lead singer of the rock bands Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy. He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band The Almighty, with whom he achieved chart success in the UK throughout the 1990s. Warwick has released several solo albums and performed with a variety of other bands and artists, and also fronts his own band, The Fighting Hearts, to showcase his solo material.
1966Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (born 1913)[†]
Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]