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April 17, 1967

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MAJORITY REPORT SEEKS PAPAL SHIFT ON COTRACEPTION; Advisers to Pontiff Are Split --Both Findings Printed in U.S. Catholic Paper NO COMMENT BY VATICAN Liberals on Panel Hold View That Marriage Requires Right to Plan Family

By Douglas E. Kneeland Special To the New York Times

Papal Comm on Birth Control majority rept cites need for marital, including sexual, 'fulfillment' as reason for backing use of contraceptives; stresses sexual love in marriage but warns against condoning sexuality, even in marriage, for its own sake; upholds ch stand on extramarital relations and unnatural sex acts; minority rept, opposing contraception, fears its approval will lead to approval of extramarital sex and unnatural sex acts; repts were submitted to Pope last June but kept secret

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U.S. BOMB ERROR, SECOND IN 2 DAYS KILLS 14 CIVILIANS; 25 Wounded as Supersaber Strikes Village Housing Vietcong Defectors 9 G.I.'S INJURED IN RAID Terrorists Attack in Saigon --North Vietnamese Bar Canada's Peace Plan

By Tom Buckley Special To the New York Times

US planes, in 2d accidental attack on allied target in 2 days, kill 14 civilians, wound 25, all residents of village for Vietcong defectors, Trucgiang area; map; USAF will not make pub names of 3 officers accused of poor judgment in Mar 2 Langvei bombing; US planes fly 486 missions

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1967, covering April 17, 1967.

  1. 1
    Album cover for More Of The Monkees by The Monkees

    More Of The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Mamas & The Papas Deliver by The Mamas & The Papas

    The Mamas & The Papas Deliver

    The Mamas & The Papas

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for The Monkees by The Monkees

    The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  4. 4
    Album cover for Doctor Zhivago by Soundtrack

    Doctor Zhivago

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    57
  5. 5
    Album cover for My Cup Runneth Over by Ed Ames

    My Cup Runneth Over

    Ed Ames

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    7

Notable Births

Henry Ian Cusick

1967Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-Scottish actor[†]

Henry Ian Cusick is a Peruvian-Scottish actor of television, film, and theatre and a television director best known as Desmond Hume in Lost, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He also starred as Jesus in The Gospel of John, Stephen Finch on Scandal, Marcus Kane on The 100, Dr. Jonas Lear in The Passage, and Russell "Russ" Taylor on MacGyver.

Kimberly Elise

1967Kimberly Elise, American actress[†]

Kimberly Elise Trammel is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in Set It Off (1996), and later received critical acclaim for her performance in Beloved (1998).

Marquis Grissom

1967Marquis Grissom, American baseball player and coach[†]

Marquis Deon Grissom is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants between 1989 and 2005.

Ian Jones (rugby union, born 1967)

1967Ian Jones, New Zealand rugby player[†]

Ian Donald Jones is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He played 79 tests for the All Blacks. He is one of New Zealand's most capped locks and formed one of the most famous lock pairings in international rugby, often partnered with Robin Brooke in the All Blacks from 1992 to 1998. What Jones lacked in size he more than made up for in skill, Jones was picked over physically intimidating locks such as Mark Cooksley who was the tallest All Black ever. Jones made his All Black debut Saturday, 16 June 1990 v Scotland at Dunedin. At the time he was 23 years, 60 days old.

Barnaby Joyce

1967Barnaby Joyce, Australian politician, 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia[†]

Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who was the leader of the National Party of Australia from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022. Joyce was the 17th deputy prime minister of Australia during both his leadership tenures under Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from 2016 to 2018 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison from 2021 to 2022.

Liz Phair

1967Liz Phair, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Elizabeth Clark Phair is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Phair was raised primarily in the Chicago area. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, she attempted to start a musical career in San Francisco; however, she returned to her home in Chicago, where she began self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound. The tapes led to a recording contract with the independent record label Matador Records.

Notable Deaths

Red Allen

1967Red Allen, American singer and trumpet player (born 1908)[†]

Henry James "Red" Allen Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose playing has been described by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and others as the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.

Historical Context for April 17, 1967

In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]