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NYC City Council com, over Mayor Lindsay's objections, approves doubling juror fees to $12 a day, maximum permissible in state and city cts; com chmn Merola criticizes Lindsay opposition on ground of 'current budget squeeze'
Vietcong radio says mourning period will extend from Sept 5 to Sept 11; funeral will be held Sept 10; US officials say US will not seek to exploit possible differences among new leaders in Hanoi; State Dept aide D Pike, in article not cleared by dept, says death will have profound effect on internal pol scene in Hanoi
James Gibson Jr., a presiding justice of the Appellate Division, won the nomination of the three biggest vote-getting parties in the state yesterday for the vacancy on the Court of Appeals to be filled in the Nov. 4 election.
FDA repts that birth control pills being taken by 8.5-million Amer women are 'safe' but that a definite cause-and-effect relationship between use of pills and deaths caused by blood clotting disorders exists; says that it finds ratio of benefit to risk sufficiently high to justify designation 'safe' for use of pills; new study in 185-page rept concludes risk of death to users of pills from blood clotting is 4.4 times as high as risk to women who do not use drug; study supports Brit findings pub last yr; FDA Comr Ley says 'no effective drug is not associated with some side effects,' news conf; Dr L M Hellman, chmn of advisory com that wrote rept, says there is clear-cut relationship between clotting and pills; discusses conditions under which pills should be taken; rept also notes so-called sequential oral contraceptive, new type of drug coming into wider use, which has higher blood clotting risk than other types of pills; details; other findings and methods used in study discussed
Mayor Lindsay pledged his support yesterday for the proposal of the Board of Higher Education to offer a college education to every high school graduate by the fall of 1970.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 3, 1969, covering September 5, 1969.
Johnny Cash
Blind Faith
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Cream
Original Cast Recording
1969Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known as Leonardo Araújo or simply Leonardo, is a Brazilian football executive and former player and manager. He last served as the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain until May 2022.
1969Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host[†]
Mariko Kouda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program Minna no Uta.
1969Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach[†]
Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an English former cricketer and cricket coach.
1969Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician[†]
Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer and performer Frank Zappa. Exposed to the music industry from an early age, Zappa developed a strong affinity for playing the guitar and producing music. Able to learn directly from guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Zappa released his first single at the age of 12.
1969Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.[†]
The My Lai massacre was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers from C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade and B Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Division. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12. The incident was the largest massacre of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]