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September 29, 1966

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VIETCONG INVITE A PEACE COALITION IN SOUTH VIETNAM; Liberation Front Would Work With Saigon's Ex-Leaders, but Not With Ky or Thieu U.S. STUDIES BROADCAST Plan Carried by Hanoi Radio Is Viewed as Softening of Conditions for Parley VIETCONG INVITE PEACE COALITION

By Robert Trumbull Special To the New York Times

Natl Liberation Front pres Nguyen Huu Tho invites former members of Ngo Dinh Diem adm and succeeding pro-Western adms into a 'dem natl coalition govt' for S Vietnam, Aug 28 int by W Burchett broadcast by Hanoi; excludes Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky as among 'a handful of traitors'; lists conditions for a 'real peace' as inclusion of Front in coalition govt, removal of US troops and bases and settlement of Vietnamese affairs without foreign interference; broadcast stirs US interest, seen softening recent Hanoi peace conditions; Burchett, in postscript to his new book, Vietnam North, says he showed text to de Gaulle on eve of his Sept 1 Pnompenh s

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 1966, covering September 29, 1966.

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    Album cover for Revolver by The Beatles

    Revolver

    The Beatles

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    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Doctor Zhivago by Soundtrack

    Doctor Zhivago

    Soundtrack

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    Peak
    2
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    29
  3. 3
    Album cover for Somewhere My Love by Ray Conniff

    Somewhere My Love

    Ray Conniff

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    3
    Peak
    3
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    12
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Sound Of Music by Soundtrack

    The Sound Of Music

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
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    81
  5. 5
    Album cover for What Now My Love by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    What Now My Love

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    21

Notable Births

1966Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player and coach[†]

Hersey R. Hawkins Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After starring at George Westinghouse College Prep, the 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) shooting guard played college basketball for the Bradley Braves. Hawkins played for four teams throughout his 12-year NBA career.

1966Ben Miles, English actor[†]

Benjamin Charles Miles is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Patrick Maitland in the television comedy Coupling, from 2000 to 2004, as Montague Dartie in The Forsyte Saga, from 2002 to 2003, as propagandist and television executive Roger Dascombe in 2005 film V for Vendetta, as Peter Townsend in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2017), George in episode 8 "The One That Holds Everything" in the TV drama The Romanoffs (2018), and Tay Kolma in the Star Wars series Andor (2022–2025).

Bujar Nishani

1966Bujar Nishani, Albanian politician, 7th President of Albania (died 2022)[†]

Bujar Faik Nishani was an Albanian politician. He served as the president of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017.

Ken Norton Jr.

1966Ken Norton Jr., American football player and coach[†]

Kenneth Howard Norton Jr. is an American professional football coach and former player who is the linebackers coach for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 1988 NFL draft.

Jill Whelan

1966Jill Whelan, American actress[†]

Jill Whelan is an American actress. After working in television commercials, she landed her breakthrough role playing Vicki Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing, in six of the nine seasons of the American television series The Love Boat (1977–1986). She later guest starred on the revival Love Boat: The Next Wave. She has had numerous guest roles in TV shows and played Lisa Davis in Airplane! In 2015, she was hired as a celebrations ambassador by Princess Cruises.

Notable Deaths

Bernard Gimbel

1966Bernard Gimbel, American businessman (born 1885)[†]

Bernard Feustman Gimbel was an American businessman and president of the Gimbels department store.

Historical Context for September 29, 1966

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