On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, Aug. 22--Money and the figure and legend of Charles de Gaulle are serving to keep this and other parts of the French West Indies closely tied to the mother country.
MOSCOW, Aug. 27--The Soviet wheat harvest is almost in and the crop looks good enough to give a much needed impetus to the leadership's ambitious agricultural policies.
Tenants in thousands of buildings over the city will get the right on Sept.9 to stop paying rent if their landlords do not correct serious violations of the building code now charged against them.
JOHNSON CITY, Tex., Aug. 27--President Johnson celebrated his 58th birthday at the LBJ Ranch today and appeared to be happy and content despite weather that could have ruined anybody else's birthday.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27 --Robert A. Humphrey, the second son of Vice President and Mrs. Humphrey, and Donna Erickson were married in St. Olaf's Roman Catholic Church here this morning.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 24, 1966, covering August 28, 1966.
The Beatles
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Frank Sinatra
Soundtrack
Ray Conniff
1966Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician[†]
Priya Dutt Roncon is an Indian politician and social worker. She was elected for the first time to the 14th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra on 22 November 2005, representing the Indian National Congress party. She represented the Mumbai North Central constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha from 2009. In the 2014 and 2019 Indian general elections, she was defeated by Poonam Mahajan of the BJP.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]