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Jim Ryun, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Kansas, clipped almost 2 seconds off the world record for the mile at the All-America track and field invitation meet yesterday at Berkeley, Calif.
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Guardsmen patrolling area are reduced 1,200; Kerner says troops will not be demobilized until Daley and Wilson decide police can handle situation, news conf; puts mobilization cost at $100,000 a day; city buys 10 portable swimming pools for area and announces all pools in city are available to Negroes; sprinklers are now in place on hydrants near almost every fire station; Sen Douglas says Sec Weaver has pledged Fed funds for some pools
B-52s bomb jungle near demilitarized zone; aim at N Vietnamese Army div; 2 USMC cos dig in near suspected N Vietnamese hq encampment 2 mi from zone; fight off 2 attacks; captured N Vietnamese says his div seeks to destroy S Vietnam 1st Inf Div assigned to protect Quangtri Prov
police guard Speck against possible assassination attempts; Dr L A Smith reptdly recognized him when he was brought to hosp after apparent suicide attempt; newsmen barred from seeing Amurao or Speck; his por released by police came from USCG, not NMU file; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 13, 1966, covering July 18, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Frank Sinatra
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Lou Rawls
1966Dan O'Brien, American decathlete and coach[†]
Daniel Dion O'Brien is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships, and set the world record in 1992.
1966Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)[†]
Robert Gaston Fuller was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law," recorded with his group the Bobby Fuller Four.
1966Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.[†]
Human spaceflight is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew. Spacecraft can also be remotely operated from ground stations on Earth, or autonomously, without any direct human involvement. People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts, cosmonauts (Russian), or taikonauts (Chinese); and non-professionals are referred to as spaceflight participants or spacefarers.
1966A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.[†]
The Hough riots were riots in the predominantly African-American community of Hough in Cleveland, Ohio, United States which took place from July 18 to 23, 1966. During the riots, four African Americans were killed and 50 people were injured. There were 275 arrests and numerous incidents of arson and firebombings. City officials at first blamed black nationalist and communist organizations for the riots, but historians generally dismiss these claims today, arguing that the cause of the Hough Riots were primarily poverty and racism. The riots caused rapid population loss and economic decline in the area, which lasted at least five decades after the riots.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]