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Ellington defeats Hooker for Dem nomination for Gov, Clement apparently defeats Bass for Sen nomination, preliminary returns; Baker defeats Roberts for Repub Sen nomination; Repubs for Repub Sen nomination; Repubs held no primary for Gov; Hooker had been supported by Negroes and labor
India seeks comm expansion to several roving teams to prevent further conflict in zone; backs new effort to revive joint mil comm with reprs from N and S Vietnam
Repr Hebert tells Sec Resor he will do everything in his power to block Defense Dept plan to merge Army Reserve into Guard and to cut their total size, HR subcom; Resor backs many provisions of subcom bill to block merger but holds it would require 100,000 more reservists than necessary and increase backlog of untrained men; urges temporary suspension of enlistments into reserves when overcrowding prevents training within 120 days
Petitions for a referendum on the new civilian-dominated police review board are expected to be ruled invalid today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 3, 1966, covering August 5, 1966.
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
1966Jennifer Finch, American singer, bass player, and photographer[†]
Jennifer Finch is an American musician, designer, and photographer most notable for being the primary bass player of the punk rock band L7. Active in L7 from 1986 to 1996, Finch also wrote music and performed with her bands OtherStarPeople and The Shocker in the interim before joining the reunited L7 in 2014.
1966Jonathan Silverman, American actor and producer[†]
Jonathan Elihu Silverman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the comedy films Brighton Beach Memoirs, Weekend at Bernie's, and its sequel Weekend at Bernie's II.
1966A group of red guards at Experimental High in Beijing, including Deng Rong and Liu Pingping, daughters of Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi respectively, beat the deputy vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death with sticks after accusing her of counter-revolutionary revisionism, producing one of the first fatalities of the Cultural Revolution.[†]
The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolition in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]