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about 700 Tuskegee Inst students smash windows and loot store protesting Segrest acquittal; entire city police force called out; inst pros Foster decries students action
Ruby taken from Dallas County Jail to Parkland Memorial Hosp suffering from pneumonia; sister, Mrs Grant, reptdly said that Ruby was not getting proper treatment; bro Earl notified, Detroit
new US inf contingent arrives; US troops now total 364,000
Govt repts sales dropped $200-million, Nov, to $25.4-billion
Democrats, Republicans and Liberals appeared willing yesterday to establish a common approach in organizing the state's Constitutional Convention.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 7, 1966, covering December 10, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
The Supremes
Soundtrack
The Mamas & The Papas
1966Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer and academic[†]
Rein Ahas was an Estonian geographer and a professor at the University of Tartu. From 2013–2015 he was a researcher-professor of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
1966Robin Brooke, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Robin Matthew Brooke is a former New Zealand rugby player. He played for the New Zealand national rugby union team in the 1990s, playing many tests alongside brother Zinzan Brooke.
1966Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player[†]
Melquíades Rojas Medrano is a Dominican former Major League Baseball (MLB) relief pitcher. From 1990 to 1999, he played for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League and the Detroit Tigers of the American League.
1966Penelope Trunk, American writer[†]
Penelope Trunk is an American writer and entrepreneur. Trunk published works in the early 2000s under the pen name Adrienne Eisen and later under the name Penelope Trunk, a name she adopted in her public life.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]