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NYC Council unanimously approves bill to give Lindsay sweeping emergency powers; provisions detailed; Councilman Modugno criticizes bill
Episc conf meets; Abp Cooke elected to Adm Com
USSR party, condemning Mao as foe of Marxism-Leninism and exponent of bourgeois nationalism, holds that very existence of Chinese party is jeopardized by its present leadership and that situation is concern of entire Communist movement, ed in party pub Kommunist; statement is circulated by Tass prior to pub, indicating importance USSR leadership attaches to its timing on eve of Budapest conf; Moscow observers see sequence of events indicating that USSR intends to raise Chinese threat to world movement as subject for discussion at world conf
Thant predicts talks between US and N Vietnam will start this wk in Paris, private remarks; efforts to reach Mai Van Bo are unsuccessful; Thant qualifies answers to questions in conversation with French newsmen; French officials say France has refrained from move to 'sell' Paris as talks site; State Dept says no agreement on talks has been reached; Johnson says US is in daily contact with N Vietnam; indicates doubt about Hanoi's intentions in agreeing to talk; N Vietnam reiterates it favors Warsaw and Pnompenh as site; Min Tran Van Do says S Vietnam has no objections to Paris as site
nuclear nonproliferation treaty draft approved by US and USSR would bar aid on peaceful uses to nations not signing treaty or not accepting its requirements for internatl inspection
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 24, 1968, covering April 24, 1968.
Soundtrack
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Simon & Garfunkel
1968Aidan Gillen, Irish actor[†]
Aidan Murphy, better known as Aidan Gillen, is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles as Stuart Alan Jones in Queer as Folk (1999–2000); Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (2004–2008); John Boy in Love/Hate (2010–2011); Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game of Thrones (2011–2017); Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders (2017–2019); Milo Sunter in Mayor of Kingstown (2021–2024); and Frank Kinsella in Kin (2021–2023). His film roles include Lord Nathan Rathbone in Shanghai Knights (2003), a CIA operative in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dr. Frank Harte in Calvary (2014), Janson in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), Robert in Sing Street (2016), and John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
1968Todd Jones, American baseball player[†]
Todd Barton Jones is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was an effective middle reliever for several teams and also filled the role of closer, most notably with the Detroit Tigers for whom he earned 235 of his 319 career saves. On September 16, 2007, Jones became the 21st member of the 300-save club during his second stint with the Tigers.
1968Roxanna Panufnik, English composer[†]
Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish descent. She is the daughter of the Polish composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik and his second wife Camilla, née Jessel.
1968Hashim Thaçi, Kosovan soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Kosovo[†]
Hashim Thaçi is a Kosovo Albanian politician who was the president of Kosovo from April 2016 until his resignation on 5 November 2020. He was the first prime minister of Kosovo and the Foreign minister and deputy prime minister in the new cabinet led by Isa Mustafa, which assumed office on 8 December 2014.
1968Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (born 1876)[†]
John Walter Beardsley Tewksbury was an American track and field athlete. At the 1900 Summer Olympics, he won five medals, including two golds.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]