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Govt takes control of natl univs and orders all personnel to pledge loyalty to Educ Min or resign; BA Univ students clash with police after decree; many hurt, about 150 jailed
44 Dem and 3 Repub Reprs urge Adm to dissociate itself from 'spirit of escalation' being advocated by Nguyen Cao Ky, statement; urge now initiatives to reach negotiated settlement; warn that war shows danger of spreading; Reprs listed
15 persons held hostage 3 1/2 hrs in Bronx apt by 1 of 3 fleeing gunman after restaurant robbery; 1 thief captured; illus
70 cities get questionnaire on costs and mechanics of metering water for rept by J L Marcus expected to provide documentation for Mayor Lindsay declared intention of metering supply
US planes bomb demilitarized zone between N and S Vietnam for 1st time; US mil spokesman says attack was ordered to counter infiltration by N Vietnamese troops and use of zone as sanctuary; no US troops had fought in zone; '54 Geneva accord banned all mil action in zone; N Vietnam signed accord, but US did not; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1966, covering July 31, 1966.
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Lou Rawls
1966Dean Cain, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Dean George Cain is an American actor. From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Cain was the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and appeared in the sports drama series Hit the Floor.
1966Bud Powell, American pianist (born 1924)[†]
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris.
1966The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.[†]
MV Darlwyne was a pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, that disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one. Twelve bodies and a few artefacts were later recovered, but the rest of the victims and the main body of the wreck were never found.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]