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1966 (''' MCMLXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
Events
January
- January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic .
- January 2 - Strike of Public Transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13
- January 3 - First Acid Test at The Fillmore , San Francisco
- January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso ).
- January 4 - Prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow
- January 4 - Fire due to a Gas Leak in Feyzin Oil Refinery near Lyon , France - 18 dead, 84 injured
- January 10 - Pakistan i- India n peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
- January 10 - French paper '' L'Express '' publishes a story of Georges Figon , who took part of the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka . January 18 French police announces that Figon has committed suicide just before he was about to be arrested
- January 11 - Conference about the situation in Rhodesia begins in Lagos
- January 11 - Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies
- January 12 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- January 13 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development .
- January 15 - A violent military Coup in Nigeria
- January 15 - Moscow announces Sergei Korolev 's death
- January 17 - The Nigerian Coup is overturned
- January 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain , dropping three 70-kiloton Hydrogen Bomb s near the town of Palomares and one into the sea
- January 17 - Carl Brashear , the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
- January 18 - About 8000 US soldiers land in South Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000
- January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister Of India - sworn in January 24
- January 19 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies resigns
- January 20 - Demonstrations against high food prices in Hungary
- January 21 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party
- January 22 - Military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa has been killed during the coup
- January 26 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires
- January 26 - Beaumont Children Disappearance - Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg Beach , South Australia , and have never been seen again
- January 27 - British government promises USA that British troops in Malaysia stay until more peaceful conditions in the region
- January 29 - The first of 608 performances of '' Sweet Charity '' opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City .
- January 31 - United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia
- January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
February
March
April
May
June
July
- July 1 - Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
- July 3 - Rene Barrientos elected President Of Bolivia
- July 4 - North Vietnam declares general Mobilization
- July 4 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom Of Information Act into law. The act goes into effect the following year.
- July 6 - Malawi becomes a republic
- July 7 - Conference of Warsaw Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam
- July 12 - Indira Gandhi visits Moscow
- July 12 - Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth Of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia
- July 12 - US lieutenant major W.H. Whalen arrested for spying
- July 14 - Israel i and Syria n jet fighters fight over the Jordan River
- July 14 - In Chicago, Illinois , Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory
- July 14 - Gwynfor Evans becomes member of Parliament for Carmarthen , the first Plaid Cymru MP in the UK .
- July 16 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about Vietnam War - Soviet Government refutes his ideas
- July 17 - Richard Speck arrested - he tries to commit suicide but fails
- July 18 - Gemini X lifts off for earth orbit with astronauts John Young and Michael Collins , setting a world altitude record of 474 miles.
- July 18 - The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio , the city's first Race Riot .
- July 19 - Chinese delegate in Netherlands , Liu En-Tsiu , is declared Persona Non Grata because of death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office
- July 22 - Chinese government announces Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans Persona Non Grata but tells him not to leave the country before group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands
- July 23 - Katangese troops in Stanleyville , Congo , revolt in support of the exiled minister Moise Tschombe . Mutiny lasts several weeks
- July 24 - U Thant visits Moscow
- July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House Of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous Precedent
- July 28 - USA announces that U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba
- July 29 - Nigeria n army rebels and execute the head of state general Irons
- July 30 - England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup at Wembley
August
- August 1 - Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 from the University Of Texas At Austin Main Building.
- August 1 - Military Coup in Nigeria - general Yakubu Gowon takes over
- August 2 - Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft
- August 5 - Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march in Chicago
- August 6 - Rene Barrientos takes office as the President Of Bolivia
- August 6 - Bridge over the Tagus River in Lisbon , Portugal , is opened
- August 7 - Race riots occur in Lansing , Michigan.
- August 10 - East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for espionage for USA
- August 10 - Lunar Orbiter 1 , the first US spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched
- August 12 - In the Massacre Of Braybrook Street , Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead three plain clothes policemen in London - they are later sentenced to life imprisonment
- August 13 - China begins Cultural Revolution
- August 13 - An Earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured
- August 15 - Syria n and Israel i troops clash over Lake Genesaret for three hours
- August 15 - '' New York Herald Tribune '' stops publication
- begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
- August 17 - Saudi Arabia and United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen
- meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, at the Battle Of Long Tan in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic Of Vietnam
- August 19 - Earthquake in eastern Turkey destroys whole cities
- August 21 - Seven men sentenced to death in Egypt for anti- Nasser agitation
- August 22 - Formation of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee ( UFWOC ), predecessor of the United Farm Workers Of America ( UFW )
- August 26 - Riots in French Somaliland
- August 29 - British Rock band The Beatles play their very last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California .
- August 30 - France offers independence to French Somaliland
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 1
- --- Anna Burke , Australia n politician and member for Chisholm in the House Of Representatives
- --- Michael Imperioli , American actor
- January 3 - Martin Galway , Northern Irish composer
- January 7 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy , American actress and model, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (d. 1999 )
- January 12 - Rob Zombie , American musician, artist, and writer
- January 13 - Patrick Dempsey , American actor
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