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US Commerce Dept repts defense spending rate rose at rate of $4.2-billlon a yr, July-Sept, $1.2-billion above recent Govt estimate
Pres Johnson s, McDowell campaign for re-election
Cong conf agrees on $3.6-billion bill, sum Pres Johnson asked for; bill eliminates dollar ceilings on Fed grants to sewage treatment projects; details; Sen Muskie disappointed that his bill's $6-billion authorization was not retained; conf agrees to strengthen 3-stage enforcement of regulations against polluters
'66 Nobel Prize in Med to Drs Huggins and Rous, both Amers, for cancer research
F D Roosevelt Jr charges Repub ex-Chmn Morhouse got Kings County Chmn Crews support for Rockefeller '58 Repub Gov nomination in exch for pledge Crews could name next SLA chmn, s; Rockefeller aide disputes charge
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 1966, covering October 14, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Ray Conniff
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Supremes
1966George Carstairs, Australian rugby league player (born 1900)[†]
George James Carstairs (1900–1966) was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1920s and represented Australia.
1966Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (born 1904)[†]
Arthur Fitzgerald Folwell was a British-born Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, coached in the 1940s, and was an administrator in the mid-20th century. An Australia national and New South Wales state representative hooker, he played his club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League for Sydney's Newtown before becoming their coach and taking them to the 1943 NSWRFL premiership.
1966The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.[†]
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
1966The Dutch Cals cabinet fell after Norbert Schmelzer, the leader of the government party, filed a successful motion against the budget, in what later became known as the Night of Schmelzer.[†]
The Cals cabinet was the executive branch of the Dutch Government from 14 April 1965 until 22 November 1966. The cabinet was formed by the christian-democratic Catholic People's Party (KVP) and Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and the social-democratic Labour Party (PvdA) after the fall of the previous Cabinet Marijnen. The cabinet was a Centre-left coalition and had a substantial majority in the House of Representatives; prominent Catholic politician Jo Cals, a former Minister of Education, served as Prime Minister. Labour Leader Anne Vondeling served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Protestant Leader Barend Biesheuvel continued as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the responsibility for Suriname and Netherlands Antilles Affairs from previous cabinet.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]