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Throwback Thursday: The top 10 songs this week in 1966
This week 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson, during the annual public proclamation of Memorial Day, said that the U.S. would not pull out of Vietnam until victory was achieved; Surveyor 1, the first American lunar exploration probe, was launched; actress Helena Bonham Carter was born; CBS' "The Dick Van Dyke Show" ended its series run; "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" topped the box office; and the following songs were the most popular in the U.S., according to Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.
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