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Saigon embassy repts Vietcong radio broadcast indicates AID official G C Hertz, captured in Feb '65, has been executed, presumably in reprisal move
Const Conv com votes to retain separate ct
Sen Foreign Relations Com, beginning work on $3.2-billion authorization bill, limits to 15 number of countries eligible for development loans; forbids increasing total except by Cong consent; Adm had asked that limitation be kept at present level of 29 countries; com rejects request that 40-country limitation on tech assistance commitments be raised to 43; cuts out secs of bill that Fulbright says com considers 'verbiage'; rejects Adm plea to soften restrictions on development loan fund adm; HR recesses for 10 days without completing companion bill
JERUSALEM, June 27--Parliament tonight passed a bill enabling the Minister of the Interior, Haim Moshe Shapiro, to proclaim Jerusalem a single city under Israeli administration.
Turkish Pres Dunay, expressing accord with de Gaulle, says West must work for detente while maintaining own unity, s, Paris; holds de Gaulle right in insisting on penis inherent in East-West confrontation
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 28, 1967, covering June 28, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
Jefferson Airplane
1967Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health[†]
Leona Aglukkaq is a Canadian politician. She was a member of the non-partisan Legislative Assembly of Nunavut representing the riding of Nattilik from 2004 until stepping down in 2008; then was a Conservative Member of Parliament representing the riding of Nunavut after winning the seat in the 2008 federal election. She was the first Conservative to win the seat, and only the second centre-right candidate ever to win it. Leona Aglukkaq is the first Inuk woman to serve in cabinet. She remained an MP until she was defeated in the 2015 federal election by Liberal candidate Hunter Tootoo. Aglukkaq unsuccessfully contested the 2019 federal election.
1967Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer[†]
Gil Bellows is a Canadian actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. Upon graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he began acting in films and television. Bellows also earned critical acclaim for his stage performances in The Snake and the Vein (1990–1992), Flaubert's Latest (1992), and his first starring role in Love and a .45 (1994). Bellows gained widespread recognition for his pivotal role as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). The film, nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, is often regarded as one of the greatest ever made.
1967Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner[†]
Zhong Huandi is a retired Chinese long-distance runner who concentrated on the 3000 and 10,000 metres, and later the marathon. She became a four-time Asian champion and two-time World Championships silver medalist. On 8 September 1993, she became the second fastest 10,000 meter runner of all time, only surpassed by Wang Junxia, the winner of that same race by more than half a lap in what remained the world record until the 2016 Olympics. Both runners surpassed the standing world record by Ingrid Kristiansen.
1967Lars Riedel, German discus thrower[†]
Lars Peter Riedel a former German discus thrower. Riedel has the seventh longest discus throw of all-time with a personal best of 71.50 m.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]