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May 29, 1968

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Headlines from May 29, 1968

S. E. C. ASKS CUTS IN BROKERS' FEES; New York Stock Exchange Gets Proposal to Benefit Inventors in Big Trades S. E. C. ASKS CUT IN BROKERS' FEES

By Eileen Shanahanspecial To the New York Times

SEC formally asks NYSE to cut comms its member firms charge on large stock transactions, effective Sept 15 or sooner if possible; move is interim step pending full rev of comm charges as well as membership eligibility and business procedures; July hearings set; SEC offers alternative ways of cutting comms; complexities discussed

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Johnson Requests Freer World Trade; JOHNSON APPEALS FOR FREER TRADE

By Edwin L. Dale Jr.special To the New York Times

Johnson, disclosing he has decided against such restrictive moves as an import surcharge, reaffirms support for freer trade, message to Cong; would liberalize adjustment aid in case of injury from foreign competition and extend expired but unused tariff-cutting authority voted in 62

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DRIVE TO COMPEL DE GAULLE TO QUIT PRESSED BY FOES; Opposition Assails Regime and a Minister Resigns--Cohn-Bendit Reappears MITTERRAND MAKES BID Declares His Candidacy for President -- Text Is Issued for June Referendum FRENCH PRESSURE ON REGIME RISES

By Henry Tannerspecial To the New York Times

PARIS, May 28 -- The Gaullist Government came under sharp pressures today from the forces that are seeking the immediate resignation of President de Gaulle and Premier Georges Pompidou.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 29, 1968, covering May 29, 1968.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

    Bookends

    Simon & Garfunkel

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Graduate by Soundtrack

    The Graduate

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    12
  3. 3
    Album cover for The Birds; The Bees & The Monkees by The Monkees

    The Birds; The Bees & The Monkees

    The Monkees

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for Beat Of The Brass by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Beat Of The Brass

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    4
  5. 5
    Album cover for Parsley; Sage; Rosemary And Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel

    Parsley; Sage; Rosemary And Thyme

    Simon & Garfunkel

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    82

Notable Births

Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll

1968Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician[†]

Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th and 6th Duke of Argyll, styled as Earl of Campbell before 1973 and as Marquess of Lorne between 1973 and 2001, is a Scottish peer.

1968Tate George, American basketball player[†]

Tate Claude George is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft from the University of Connecticut. A 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) and 190-pound (86 kg) guard, he played a total of four years in the NBA for the Nets and Milwaukee Bucks, averaging 4.2 points per game in his career.

Jessica Morden

1968Jessica Morden, English politician[†]

Jessica Elizabeth Morden is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament.

Hida Viloria

1968Hida Viloria, American activist[†]

Hida Viloria is an American writer, author, producer, and human rights activist of Latin American origin. Viloria is intersex, nonbinary, and genderfluid, using they/them pronouns. They are known for their writing, their intersex and non-binary human rights activism, and as one of the first people to come out in national and media as a nonbinary intersex person. Viloria is Founding Director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality.

Notable Deaths

Arnold Susi

1968Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (born 1896)[†]

Arnold Susi was a lawyer and the Minister of Education in the Estonian government of Otto Tief established on 18 September 1944 during WWII. In 1945, Susi befriended Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a Soviet prison. In the 1960s, when writing The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn hid at Susi's country house in Estonia. Solzhenitsyn also briefly describes his meeting with Arnold Susi in that book. Susi also wrote his memoirs of World War I in Doom of the Russian Empire, which he wrote while in Abakan. He died in Tallinn, aged 72.

Historical Context for May 29, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]