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emergency session set as Belgium becomes 62d member to concur with USSR request; Thant informs members and lists provisional agenda; '66 Assembly Pres Pazhwak to preside
P Adams declares Anguilla Island independent and asks that it become US territory; holds Anguillans seceded May 30 after being denied bare necessities of living; US bars direct talks; map
Johnson cancels plans to spend weekend at LBJ Ranch in order to be in Washington in connection with Kosygin attendance; sets major policy statement just before session opens; White House reiterates his willingness to see Kosygin
Dem, Repub leaders weigh Chicago as site; Chicago reptdly offers $750,000 to Dems and has reapplied to Repub Natl Com; factors favoring Chicago, against Miami Beach noted
S Janis gives museum his collection of 100 art works, valued at $2-3-mllllon; collection described; 2 works illus; museum dir Barr comments
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 14, 1967, covering June 17, 1967.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Bill Cosby
Aretha Franklin
The Monkees
Andy Williams
1967Dorothea Röschmann, German soprano and actress[†]
Dorothea Röschmann is a German soprano. She is famous for her performances in operas by Mozart as well as Lieder.
1967Eric Stefani, American keyboard player and composer[†]
Eric Matthew Stefani is an American musician and animator best known as the founder and former member of the ska punk band No Doubt. He is the older brother of former bandmate Gwen Stefani and is also a former animator on the television series The Simpsons and The Ren & Stimpy Show.
1967Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.[†]
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to signal strength. Because of their destruction and fallout, testing has seen opposition by civilians as well as governments, with international bans having been agreed on. Thousands of tests have been performed, with most in the second half of the 20th century.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]