Borach), 72, American comedian June 17, 1966 (Friday) Three people were murdered in the Lafayette Grill at 128 East Eighteenth Street in Paterson, New Jersey. Hours later, police stopped professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was with a friend in a white car and, five months later, Carter would be charged, tried and convicted of the triple homicide. For the next 19 years, Carter would remain imprisoned for a crime that he hadn't committed, until the case would be reopened and the conviction reversed in 1985. Carter, at one time the leading contender for the world middleweight boxing championship, would die in 2014. Died: Betty Baxter Anderson, 58, American author of the Career Story for Older Girls series of juvenile fiction books June 18, 1966 (Saturday) The Parliament of France passed Law #66-396, granting amnesty for crimes that had been committed during the Algerian War between 1954 and 1962, and the First Indochina War between 1946 and 1954. The U.S. Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral William Raborn resigned. Raborn's deputy, Richard Helms, was appointed as the new chief of the Central Intelligence Agency and would be confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on June 30. Helms would direct the CIA for almost seven years, serving under President Lyndon Johnson, and then President Richard Nixon, until 1973. Three new provinces were created in the Philippines after Kalinga-Apayao (north), Benguet (southwest), and Ifugao (south) were separated from the Mountain Province (Lalawigang Bulubundukin) pursuant to Republic Act Number 4695. Born: Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater and four-time winner of the World Figure Skating Championships between 1988 and 1998; in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta Died: Pierre Montet, 80, French Egyptologist whose excavation of the ancient city of Tanis discovered the tombs of four Egyptian pharaohs (Psusennes I (1047-1001 BCE), Amenemope (1001-984 BCE), Shoshenq II (887-885 BCE), and Takelot I (885-872 BCE) June 19, 1966 (Sunday) The 24 Hours of Le Mans was won by New Zealand drivers Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, even though race officials initially thought that the team of Ken Miles and Dennis Hulme had finished first. Miles and Hulme were preparing to accept the traditional victory bouquets, when the judges announced that they had reversed their decision. Three speedboat racers were killed in accidents during the President's Cup, an annual hydroplane regatta held on the Potomac River. Ron Musson, the defending APBA Gold Cup champion, was driving his recently