Events
DateEvent
September 26 1966 Carl Jonas Love Almqvist Died
1966 Øystein Baadsvik Was Born
1966 Jean-Pascal Beintus Was Born
September 10 1966 Abraham Binder Died
1966 Theo Bleckmann Was Born
1966 Cristina Braga Was Born
1966 Natanael Broman Died
1966 Roberto Carnevale Was Born
1966 Gaspar Cassadó Died
1966 Mohamed El Qasabgi Died
1966 German Galynin Died
1966 Vittorio Giannini Died
1966 Richard Hageman Died
1966 Liza Lim Was Born
1966 Jan Müller-Wieland Was Born
1966 Gráinne Mulvey Was Born
1966 Quincy Porter Died
1966 John Psathas Was Born
November 01 1966 Alexis Roland-Manuel Died
1966 Klaus Schedl Was Born
1966 Juan María Solare Was Born
1966 Deems Taylor Died
October 05 1966 Alex Wurman Was Born
January 01 1966 New York City Transit Workers Strike
January 01 1966 Bokassa Assumes Power Of Central African Republic
October 12 1966 Arthur Lourié Died
January 04 1966 Military Coup Dissolves National Parliament
January 12 1966 LBJ Says To Stay In South Vietnam
January 13 1966 Weaver First African American Cabinet Member
January 15 1966 Balewa's Nigerian Republic Overthrown
January 17 1966 Two Planes Collide Over Spain
January 26 1966 South Australia, Beaumont Children Go Missing
January 31 1966 Unmanned Luna 9 Spacecraft Launched
February 02 1966 Pakistan Presents Kashmir Agenda
February 03 1966 Soviet Luna 9 Lands On The Moon
February 04 1966 All Nippon Flight 60 Crashes Into Tokyo Bay
February 14 1966 Australian Currency Is Decimalised
February 23 1966 Military Coup Establishes New Syria Government
February 26 1966 Apollo Program: Launch Of AS-201
February 26 1966 Vietnam War: ROK Massacre South Vietnamese
March 01 1966 The Ba'ath Party Takes Power In Syria
March 01 1966 Venera 3, Crashes On Venus
March 04 1966 64 Dead In Tokyo Plane Crash
March 05 1966 Plane Crash On Mount Fuji Kills 124
March 08 1966 Nelson's Pillar Was Destoryed By Bomb
March 10 1966 Dissent As South Vietnam General Dismissed
March 16 1966 Gemini 8 In First Space Docking
March 17 1966 DSV Alvin Finds Missing H-bomb
March 19 1966 Texas Western Wins Final Four With All-black Lineup
March 31 1966 Soviet's Space Probe First To Orbit Moon
April 21 1966 Haile Selassie Visits Jamaica, Starting Grounation Day
April 25 1966 Tashkent Destroyed By Massive Quake
April 26 1966 A Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Destroys Tashkent
April 26 1966 Congo: New Government Led By Noumazalaye
April 30 1966 Church Of Satan Established In San Francisco
May 06 1966 England: Hindley And Brady Sentenced To Life
May 08 1966 PA Plane Crash Kills General And His Family
May 15 1966 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Strikes At Tôn Thất Đính
May 16 1966 China's Communist Party Issues ""May 16 Notice"
May 21 1966 Ulster Declares War On The IRA
May 25 1966 Explorer 32 Launches
May 25 1966 Peking University Post China's First Prominent Dàzìbào
May 26 1966 Guyana Gains Independence
May 30 1966 Congolese President Mobutu Orders Executions Of Political Adversaries
May 30 1966 Surveyor-1 Land On Extraterrestrial Body
June 02 1966 Surveyor-1 Lands On The Moon
June 08 1966 Top Pilots Killed During Photo Shoot
June 08 1966 Topeka Devastated By F5 Tornado
June 13 1966 U.S. Rules Police Must Read Rights To Suspects
June 14 1966 Vatican Abolishes 1557 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
June 19 1966 Indian Party Shiv Sena Founded
June 30 1966 Feminist Organization ""NOW"" Is Founded
July 01 1966 Toronto: 1st Color TV Transmission In Canada
July 02 1966 France Tests Nuclear Weapon In Pacific
July 04 1966 Freedom Of Information Act Signed By Johnson
July 06 1966 Banda Becomes First President Malawi
July 08 1966 King Mwambutsa IV Deposed By Son
July 10 1966 60,000 People Attend Chicago Freedom Movement Rally
July 15 1966 US And South Vietnam Push Out North Vietnamese
July 18 1966 Gemini 10 Launches For 70 Hour Mission
July 18 1966 Play School Series Airs
July 24 1966 Pelkey, Schubert Make First BASE Jumps
August 01 1966 Charles Whitman Killed 16 People
August 01 1966 China's Cultural Revolution Began Intellectuals Purge
August 07 1966 Race Riots Occur In Lansing, Michigan
August 16 1966 U.S. House Begins Anti-war Investigations
August 18 1966 Australians Fought The Viet Cong
August 22 1966 United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Formed
August 23 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 Takes Photograph Of Earth
August 25 1966 Sayyid Qutb Is Executed In Egypt
August 26 1966 Namibian War Starts With Battle Omugulugwombashe
August 29 1966 The Beatles Perform Last Concert In San Francisco
September 06 1966 South African Prime Minister Stabbed To Death
September 08 1966 Severn Bridge Opens
September 08 1966 Star Trek Series Premieres
September 09 1966 Johnson Signs Motor Vehicle Safety Act
September 12 1966 Gemini 11 Holds Human Altitude Record
September 15 1966 President Johnson Urges Gun Control Legislation
September 16 1966 Antony And Cleopatra Opens Met Opera
September 29 1966 The Chevy Camaro Is Introduced
September 30 1966 Bechuanaland Declares Independence - Becomes Botswana
October 01 1966 18 Dead In First DC-9 Accident
October 04 1966 Lesotho, Formerly Basutoland, Becomes Independent From The UK
October 05 1966 A Partial Core Meltdown Occurs
October 09 1966 Binh Tai Massacre
October 09 1966 Phuroc Binh Massacre
October 14 1966 Montreal Begins Operation Of Underground Transit
October 15 1966 Newton And Seale Create The Black Panther Party
October 17 1966 Fire In New York Kills 12
October 17 1966 Botswana, Lesotho Join United Nations
October 21 1966 A Slag Heap In Aberfan, Collapses Killing 144 People
October 22 1966 The Soviet Union Launches Luna 12
October 22 1966 The Supremes Album Reaches Number 1
November 02 1966 123,000 Cubans Allowed To Apply For Residence In U.S
November 04 1966 Florence And Venice Flooded On Same Day
November 08 1966 Edward Brooke Elected First Black Senator Since Reconstruction
November 08 1966 National And American Football Leagues Merge
November 11 1966 NASA Launches Gemini 12
November 13 1966 Israelis Attack As-Samu
November 15 1966 Gemini 12 Splashes Safely In Ocean
November 15 1966 3 Die In Flight 708's Crash
November 24 1966 A Bulgarian Flight Crashed And 82 Died
November 28 1966 Michel Micombero Overthrows Burundi Monarchy Proclaiming Presidency
November 30 1966 Barbados Independent From UK
December 01 1966 First Gavle Goat Erected In Sweden
December 08 1966 Heraklion Sinks In Aegean; 200 Dead
December 09 1966 Barbados Joins The United Nations
December 18 1966 Walker Discovers Saturn Moon Epimetheus
December 24 1966 A Plane Crash In Vietnam Kills 129
December 26 1966 First Kwanzaa Celebrated
December 27 1966 Cave Of Swallows Is Discovered