Headline News Tonight, in Fresno, California June 22, 1966 (Wednesday) The Bail Reform Act of 1966 was signed into law by U.S. President Johnson, who said that the reform of the bail system in federal crimes would open a new area in American criminal justice. "Because of the bail system," Johnson said at the signing, "the scales of justice have been weighted, not with fact, nor law, nor mercy. They have been weighted with money. But now we can begin to insure the defendants are considered as individuals, not dollar signs." Under the new rules, a judge was required to make a presumption in favor of releasing a defendant before trial based on the likelihood that the person would not appear for trial. "The federal Bail Reform Act affected only a small percentage of all criminal defendants in the United States," a legal historian would later note, but "Its real impact was as a national model for the state bail reform laws incorporating the same principle that defendants have a presumptive right to bail. The result was a proliferation of state bail programs involving release on recognizance or 10 percent plans. The impact on local jails was dramatic..." Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising. Born: Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress, in Paris Died: Roger Blunt, 65, New Zealand cricketer E. Yale Dawson, 48, American botanist, drowned while diving in Red Sea June 23, 1966 (Thursday) PAGEOS, the Passive Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite, was launched into space at 5:12 p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with no instruments, designed to serve as an object that was visible with the naked eye from most of the Northern Hemisphere. The 100-foot diameter mylar balloon was initially placed in polar orbit at an altitude of and served as the first reference point for a network of observatories, to be photographed for use in geodetic triangulation in order to make more accurate mapping of the relative location of Earth's land masses. PAGEOS was observed to be disintegrating on July 12, 1975, and was gone by 1976. The final collection of James Bond short stories authored by Ian Fleming, was published as Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Fleming, who had created the Agent 007 character, had died in 1964. Born: Richie Jen, Taiwanese singer and actor, as Rén Xiánqí in