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HR passes Adm bill authorizing 50% tax rise
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Bill to bar 'midnight raids' by caseworkers on recipients, used to uncover possible fraud, approved, Assembly
Militant Cuban support for Latin-Amer guerrilla movements seen indicated by recent Castro s denouncing Venezuelan 'rightist' Communist leadership and by R Debray article, in new Cuban pub, predicting Guevara emergence as guerrilla leader and linking past Latin-Amer Communist failures to dependence on urban-based parties; article detailed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1967, covering March 16, 1967.
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Monkees
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1967Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist[†]
Tracy Kristin Bonham is an American alternative rock musician. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, she is a classically trained violinist and pianist, and a self-taught guitarist.
1967John Darnielle, American musician and novelist[†]
John Darnielle is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. He has written three novels: Wolf in White Van (2014), Universal Harvester (2017), and Devil House (2022).
1967Lauren Graham, American actress and producer[†]
Lauren Helen Graham is an American actress and author. She is best known for portraying Lorelai Gilmore on The WB series Gilmore Girls, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and for playing Sarah Braverman on the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015). She also appeared in the films Sweet November (2001), Bad Santa (2003), The Pacifier (2005), Because I Said So (2007), Evan Almighty (2007), and Max (2015). In 2013, Graham published her debut novel with Ballantine Books, Someday, Someday, Maybe. In 2016, Graham reprised her role on a Gilmore Girls Netflix revival miniseries A Year in the Life and published a memoir, Talking as Fast as I Can.
1967Ronnie McCoury, American bluegrass mandolin player, singer and songwriter[†]
Ronald Delano McCoury, known as Ronnie McCoury, is an American mandolin player, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin' McCourys.
1967Heidi Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier[†]
Heidi Andenmatten-Zurbriggen is a Swiss former alpine skier. She is the sister of Pirmin Zurbriggen, an aunt of Elia Zurbriggen and cousin of Silvan Zurbriggen. She won 3 Downhill races on the World Cup tour. She competed at the 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics.
1967Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (born 1893)[†]
Thomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]