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conv unanimously approves it
gives Med of Hon to Sgt J Howard for saving 12 in his platoon in battle near Chulai June '66; illus
Pentagon repts 2 US jets downed over Communist China after raids near Hanoi; China charges 'act of deliberate war provocation,'
NJ Migrant Labor Task Force asks Gov Hughes to close at once several migrant labor camps in S Jersey; some members threaten to resign otherwise; Hughes says he has ordered officials to weigh measures to improve conditions
Reagan has privately asked key Repub conservatives to withhold support from Nixon; has not asked them to commit selves to him; recent talks with Sen Tower and Gov Kirk noted; Reagan's office denies rept; Mayor McKeldin backs Rockefeller
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1967, covering August 22, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
1967Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English actor[†]
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Simon Adebisi in Oz, Mr. Eko in Lost, Lock-Nah in The Mummy Returns, Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity, Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Kurse in Thor: The Dark World, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, Malko in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, Dave Duerson in the NFL biopic drama Concussion, and Ogunwe in His Dark Materials.
1967Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian[†]
Tyler Gerald Burrell is an American actor. Burrell is best known for playing Phil Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
1967Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Paul Colman is a British-Australian pop-rock guitarist, vocalist, pianist, and composer. He has earned recognition a Christian musician both independently and as part of his band, the Paul Colman Trio, as a solo artist, and with the band Newsboys. His songwriting talents have been recognized with a Grammy nomination and several Dove Awards.
1967Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (died 2002)[†]
Layne Thomas Staley was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. He was known for his distinctive vocal style as well as his harmonizing with bandmate Jerry Cantrell. Prior to his success with Alice in Chains, Staley was also a member of the glam metal bands Sleze and Alice N' Chains. He was also a part of the supergroups Mad Season and Class of '99.
1967Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (born 1903)[†]
Gregory Goodwin Pincus was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]