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1966 (MCMLXVI common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December
3 Deaths
3.1 January-March 3.2 April-June 3.3 July-September 3.4 October-December
4 Nobel prizes
Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts President David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic .
January 2 - A strike of public transportation workers in New York City begins (it will end January 13 ).
January 3 - The first Acid Test is conducted at the Fillmore , San Francisco .
January 4 - A military coup occurs in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso ).
January 4 - The prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow .
January 4 - A gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon , France kills 18 and injures 84.
January 10 - Pakistani -Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Tashkent .
January 10 - The French paper L'Express Georges Figon , who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka .
January 11 - A conference on Rhodesia begins in Lagos , Nigeria .
January 11 - Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies.
January 11 - The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB .
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 is staged in Nigeria .
January 17 - The Nigerian coup is overturned.
January 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain , dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares , and 1 into the sea.
January 17 - Carl Brashear , the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of a lost h-bomb which results in the amputation of his leg.
January 18 - French police announce that Georges Figon committed suicide, prior to his arrest in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka .
January 18 - About 8,000 U.S. soldiers land in South Vietnam ; U.S. troops now total 190,000.
January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India ; she is sworn in January 24 .
January 19 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies resigns.
January 20 - Demonstrations occur against high food prices in Hungary .
January 21 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
January 22 - The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup.
January 22 - The Chadian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan , starting the Chadian Civil War .
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 , never to be seen again.
January 27 - The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity New York City .
January 31 - The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia .
February March March 19 - The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with 5 black starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
March 22 - In Washington, DC , General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
March 23 - Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey , the Archbishop of Canterbury , meet in Rome.
March 26 - Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War .
March 27 - In South Vietnam , 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
March 28 - Indira Gandhi visits Washington, DC .
March 29 - The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union ; Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
March 31 The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the British General Election.
March 31 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 space probe to enter orbit around the Moon .
March 31 - Chatham High School is opened in Taree , New South Wales .
April May May 1 - Floods occur on the Finnish coast.
May 3 - Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM , with a combined potential 100,000 watts, from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.
May 4 - Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union .
May 6 - The Moors Murderers trial at Chester Crown Court ends with Ian Brady being found guilty on all 3 counts of murder. He is sentenced to 3 concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on 2 counts of murder and cleared on a third charge, but is guilty of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady. She receives 2 concurrent terms of life imprisonment for murder and a 7-year fixed term for being an accessory.
May 12 - African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
May 12 - Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri opens.
May 12 -Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
May 14 - Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus .
May 15 - Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations.
May 15 - The South Vietnamese army besieges Da Nang .
May 15 - Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the White House , then rally at the Washington Monument .
May 16 - A seamen's strike is called in Britain.
May 16 - The legendary album Pet Sounds The Beach Boys is released.
May 16 - In New York City , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War .
May 24 - Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.
May 24 - The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country (until January 17 , 1969 ).
May 25 - Explorer program : Explorer 32 May 25 - In St. Louis, Missouri , U.S. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch , as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial .
May 26 - Guyana achieves independence.
May 28 - Fidel Castro delcares martial law in Cuba due to a possible U.S. attack.
May 28 - The Indonesian and Malayan governments declare that the Indonesian Confrontation is over (a treaty is signed on August 11 ).
May 31 - The Philippines reestablishes diplomatic relations with Malaysia .
June
