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Sen, 38-19, passes watered-down anti-inflation hill; would suspend incentives on expansion until Jan 1; other amendments
Rockefeller refuses to reply; Repub Chmn Spad denies it; Roosevelt repeats it
GE and 11 unions, with aid of Cabinet panel, agree on contract; settlement exceeds Adm's wage guideposts; provides 5% wage rise; modified cost-of-living clause, held key to settlement, to provide at least 3¢ per hr wage increase; local issues for 45,-000 workers still to be resolved; Fed mediator Rose announces 3 unions agree to postpone strike against Westinghouse; says talks, postponed to give unions time to assess GE settlement, will resume Oct 18; Meany comments on settlement; unions reptd pleased with having forced GE to raise its offer, thus breaking co's traditional bargaining policy, set by former GE vp Boulware; UE, in ind bargaining, says GE has made counter cost-of-living offer that partially meets union demands; local IUE leader says strike against GE in Schenectady will begin Oct 17 despite accord
HR, 178-141, passes demonstration cities bill; defeats Repr Brock amendment to cut authorization to $24-million in 'planning' funds, Fino move to strike Title II, and motion to send bill back to com to delete $900-million and Title II; bill provisions revd
NYC City Council Pres O'Connor, candidate for Gov, visits Bklyn State Hosp with Speaker Travia; repts hosp 'horrible,' lauds dir Beckenstein cooperation; issues program to improve treatment; charges Gov Rockefeller with neglect; Beckenstein sharply disagrees; Rockefeller defends policy
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 1966, covering October 15, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Ray Conniff
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Supremes
1966Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter[†]
Eric Benét Jordan is an American R&B singer-songwriter and musician. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
1966Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager[†]
Jorge Campos Navarrete is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and, mostly at club level, striker.
1966Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer[†]
William Morrison Charlap is an American jazz pianist and educator.
1966Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer[†]
Ilse Huizinga is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.
1966Dave Stead, English drummer[†]
David Stead, is a drummer from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Stead was the drummer for the alternate pop / rock band, The Beautiful South.
1966Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)[†]
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, CBE was a British Labour Party politician.
1966The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.[†]
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major American cities, including San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia. They were also active in many prisons and had international chapters in the United Kingdom and Algeria. Upon its inception, the party's core practice was its open carry patrols ("copwatching") designed to challenge the excessive force and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department. From 1969 onward, the party created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics. The Black Panther Party advocated for class struggle, claiming to represent the proletarian vanguard.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]