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Adm concerned over provision in Sen-passed bill to create Transportation Dept that would deprive Transportation Sec of authority over ship bldg and give such authority to new maritime bd
Gomulka, other party and Govt leaders to visit Moscow, Nov
N Vietnam radio and press score US peace bids; say Goldberg proposals veil plot to expand war, that only way to end war is by halting US 'aggressions'; silent on Nguyen Huu Tho int; US officials see no special significance in denunciation
country becomes ind nation of Botswana after 81 yrs of Brit rule; fete described; map
police replace Guardsmen as disorders ease; illus; Guard to remain bivouacked nearby; some sniping reptd, Hunters Pt; about 80 members of 'new left' orgn, Students for Dem Soc, score police tactics in curfew area; are described by police as 'white beatniks' from Berkeley area; Shelley again asks for Govt aid for jobs for Negroes; plans conf of business leaders to aid Negroes; Vice Pres Humphrey pledges Pres backing to Shelley; Repub Gov candidate Reagan chides Brown for not learning from Watts in forestalling other disorders
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 1966, covering September 30, 1966.
The Beatles
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Ray Conniff
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player[†]
Gary Armstrong is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played scrum-half for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons and the Border Reivers.
1966Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator[†]
Markus Burger is a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Since 2001, he has lived in California, where he works at Fullerton College and San Diego University.
1966Angus Taylor, Australian politician[†]
Angus Taylor is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the seat of Hume for the Liberal Party. He has been shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton since 2022, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2018 to 2022.
1966Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.[†]
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million people and a comparable land area to France, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. It is essentially the nation-state of the Tswana people, who constitute nearly 80 percent of the population.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]