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November 16, 1967

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Headlines from November 16, 1967

Capital Suburb Asks Busing; CAPITAL SUBURB PROPOSES BUSING

By Ben A. Franklin Special To the New York Times

Group of white parents, Bannockburn, Md, announces plan to bus some Negro pupils from downtown Washington area to their community; plan, already approved 'in principle' by capital and Md school officials, would be backed by Fed funds; some opposition in Bannockburn area noted

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 1967, covering November 16, 1967.

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    Album cover for Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits by Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits

    Diana Ross & The Supremes

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    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
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    Album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    The Beatles

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    2
    Peak
    1
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    22
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    Album cover for Strange Days by The Doors

    Strange Days

    The Doors

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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Doors by The Doors

    The Doors

    The Doors

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    Peak
    2
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    35
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    Album cover for The Four Tops Greatest Hits by Four Tops

    The Four Tops Greatest Hits

    Four Tops

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

1967Craig Arnold, American poet and academic (died 2009)[†]

Craig Arnold was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells (1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, The Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, an Alfred Hodder Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a MacDowell Fellowship.

1967Lisa Bonet, American actress and director[†]

Lilakoi Moon is an American actress. She portrayed Denise Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992), for which she earned widespread acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1986; she reprised the role of Denise in the first season of the spinoff series A Different World.

Historical Events

Aeroflot Flight 2230

1967Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashes near Koltsovo Airport, killing 107.[†]

Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg to Tashkent. On 16 November 1967, the Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft serving the flight crashed after takeoff, killing all 107 people aboard. At the time, it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18.

Historical Context for November 16, 1967

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