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September 12, 1966

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Headlines from September 12, 1966

CITY'S POOR EXCEL IN LEADING POOR; Ran More Than Half of 332 Summer Programs, With 50 to Be Continued Some Will Continue City's Poor Excel in Leading the Poor $400,000 Now Available Conflict Between Officials A Showcase Project Cynicism of the Slums Building Confidence Back to School Some Are Afraid

By John Kifner

NY Times survey of summer antipoverty program; 226 of 332 projects were run by neighborhood groups; projects reached 300,000-500,000 persons; Buford comments

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RED GUARDS' FOES WARNED BY PEKING; Newspaper Urges Officials Not to Oppose Movement --New Clashes Reported RED GUARDS' FOES WARNED BY PEKING

By Special to The New York Times

Jenmin Jih Pao ed acknowledges Guards have made mistakes but scolds local officials, telling them to cooperate with Guards; seen reinforcing speculation that Mao and Lin launched movement to bypass party apparatus; more clashes reptd between Guards and their intended victims; troops reptdly break up fight between Guards and factory workers, Canton

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Chinese Synthesize Insulin, German Scientists Confirm; Medical Value Cited Chinese Synthesis of Insulin Proved British Study Noted

By Walter Sullivan

Dr K Hofmann repts W Ger experiments confirm that Chinese Communist chemists perform full synthesis of bovine insulin, leading way to synthesis of human insulin (W Sullivan rept); details

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TURNOUT IS HEAVY IN SOUTH VIETNAM DESPITE VIETCONG; 81% of Registered Voters Said to Have Taken Part in Election of Assembly 19 DEAD IN TERRORISM But Saigon Says Guerrillas' Campaign of Harassment Was a 'Total Failure' Counting Continues No Irregularities Noted TURNOUT IS HEAVY IN SOUTH VIETNAM Denounced as a 'Fraud' Control Is Insured

By Charles Mohr Special To the New York Times

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Sept. 11--Despite attempts by the Vietcong to intimidate them, South Vietnamese voters turned out in large numbers today to choose an assembly to draft a new constitution.

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De Gaulle Sees French Nuclear Test in Pacific; Watches From a Cruiser 25 Miles Away as Device Is Exploded Above Atoll DE GAULLE SEES A NUCLEAR TEST

By Tillman Durdin Special To the New York Times

de Gaulle, in protective clothing, observes blast from cruiser 25 mi away; map; device in 100,000-ton range, was plutonium fission bomb

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 7, 1966, covering September 12, 1966.

1
Revolver
The Beatles
Last week
45
Peak
1
Weeks
2
2
Doctor Zhivago
Soundtrack
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3
Peak
2
Weeks
26
3
What Now My Love
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
18
4
Somewhere My Love
Ray Conniff
Last week
4
Peak
4
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9
5
The Sound Of Music
Soundtrack
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7
Peak
1
Weeks
78

Notable Births

1966Darren E. Burrows, American actor^[†]

Darren E. Burrows is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series Northern Exposure. He also appeared in the films Cry-Baby, Amistad, Sunset Strip, Forty Shades of Blue, in a season six episode of The X-Files and in Season 9 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

1966Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer^[†]

Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Folds came to prominence as the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013. He has recorded a number of solo albums, most recently Sleigher (2024). He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. He was the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from 2019 until 2025.

1966Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player^[†]

Vezio Sacratini is a retired Italian-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for various teams across Europe, most notably the Cardiff Devils, and the Italian national team. Sacratini was a member of the Italian team that finished 9th in the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Historical Events

1966Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).^[†]

Gemini 11 was the ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966. It was the 17th crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time. Astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon performed the first direct-ascent rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a record high-apogee Earth orbit; and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether. Gordon also performed two extra-vehicular activities for a total of 2 hours 41 minutes.

Historical Context for September 12, 1966

In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people^[†]

Headlines from September 12, 1966

RED GUARDS' FOES WARNED BY PEKING; Newspaper Urges Officials Not to Oppose Movement --New Clashes Reported RED GUARDS' FOES WARNED BY PEKING

Chinese Synthesize Insulin, German Scientists Confirm; Medical Value Cited Chinese Synthesis of Insulin Proved British Study Noted

De Gaulle Sees French Nuclear Test in Pacific; Watches From a Cruiser 25 Miles Away as Device Is Exploded Above Atoll DE GAULLE SEES A NUCLEAR TEST

Revolver

Doctor Zhivago

What Now My Love

Somewhere My Love

The Sound Of Music

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for September 12, 1966