Date | Event |
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 |