Monday, November 8, 1965

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The Headlines

MANY ARE KILLED; Proximity of Enemy Impedes U.S. Planes and Bars Artillery

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Get Off of My Cloud

The Rolling Stones

#1 at the box office

The Sound of Music

The must-have

Operation

On This Day

• The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.

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• The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

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• American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in Constance, Kentucky, killing 58.

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• The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alain Delon (1935)
• Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
• Bram Stoker (1847)
• Margaret Mitchell (1900)
• Edmond Halley (1656)

Slang

Tech Check

Supercomputer (CDC 6600), Hypertext & Kevlar.

Cost of Living (1960)