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Johnson examined, Brooke Army Med Center; says he will probably undergo surgery Nov 11 or 15 at center pending final confs with drs; meets with newsmen to tell them exam results
Sec McNamara gets USAF plan for advanced manned strategic bomber; craft would have 5 times the nuclear pay load and double the range of F-111, 2 1/2 times speed and same range as B-52; some Defense Dept officials say McNamara may ask about $40-million for craft in fiscal '68 budget without any commitment to full-scale development or production
State Sup Ct Justice Sobel rules agreements and ct decrees of separation effected before passage of new law can be converted to divorce beginning Sept 1 '68; ruling, if upheld, means couples need not re-execute old agreements or get new decrees; Sobel chides Legis for failing to make 'living-apart' provision clear
Harvard U student demonstrators, Students for a Dem Soc supporters, halt McNamara's car, Cambridge, Mass, force him out for debate but shout him down when he tries to s; illus; McNamara spirited away through univ tunnels
Black v US: Ct, 5-2, reverses '64 tax fraud conviction of F B Black Jr on grounds FBI agents eavesdropped on his conversations with his atty; orders new trial
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1966, covering November 8, 1966.
Soundtrack
The Monkees
The Supremes
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beatles
1966Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality[†]
Gordon James Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by Chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world.
1966Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.[†]
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to its south, New Hampshire and Vermont to its north, and New York to its west. Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With a 2024 U.S. Census Bureau-estimated population of 7,136,171, its highest estimated count ever, Massachusetts is the most populous state in New England, the 16th-most-populous in the United States, and the third-most densely populated U.S. state, after New Jersey and Rhode Island.
1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.[†]
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson previously represented Texas in Congress for over 23 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1937 to 1949, and then as a U.S. senator from 1949 to 1961.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]