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In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]
1966Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach[†]
Jacques Brinkman is a former Dutch field hockey player, who twice won the golden medal with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There he played his last international tournament for the Dutch, after a career spanning more than thirteen years.
1966Shirley Manson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Shirley Ann Manson FRSA is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and musician who is the lead vocalist of the rock band Garbage. Referred to as a "Godmother of Rock", Manson is known for her distinctive deep voice, forthright style, and rebellious attitude. Her accolades include nominations for two Brit Awards and seven Grammy Awards.
1966W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (born 1894)[†]
William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetry, and later the first to write surrealist verse, both of which have led some to call him "the first modern Canadian poet."
1966The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.[†]
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia, Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The South African Border War was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25 The San Diego Chargers of the American Football League were sold today for $10-million to a group of businessmen, including Pierre Salinger, a former White House press secretary.
Mayor Lindsay, who campaigned on a program to bring government closer to the people, appeared yesterday to feel there are times when the people get too close to the government.
SAIGON, South Vietnam, Friday, Aug. 26 A United States Air Force plane today strafed and dropped napalm on a battalion of the United States Army's First Infantry Division on an already-bloody battleground north of Saigon. Twenty or more Americans were reported killed or wounded.
DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, Aug. 25--Nationalists and French policemen clashed violently tonight shortly after President de Gaulle arrived for an official visit to France's last territory in Africa.
LONDON, Aug. 25 The latest effort to resolve the Rhodesian crisis has ended in failure.
BONN, Aug. 25 Backing his Defense Minister to the hilt, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard today accepted the resignation of three insubordinate generals and appointed two new members of the West German High Command.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 By a 378-to-3 roll-call vote the House defeated today a Senate proposal to give President Johnson special power to use National Guard troops and the Reserves in Vietnam.
For more than 20 years James Rubertone, a 61-year-old executive, had worked in close and friendly association with his boss, Lawrence Burman.
MADRID, Friday, Aug. 26 The first photograph of the earth taken from the vicinity of the moon by a United States spacecraft was received at a tracking station near here last night.
The controversial plan of New York University to build a $20million library south of Washington Square Park was approved yesterday by a 12-to-10 vote in the Board of Estimate.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. abandoned his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination yesterday with a slap at the Democrats and a comehither glance toward the Liberals.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 Secretary of State Dean Rusk told Congress today that the United States might have to use its armed forces in "collective defense against armed aggression" even in the absence of clear-cut American defense treaty ties with the nation attacked.