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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1966


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 11 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
  • January 14 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
  • January 18 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
  • January 22 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
  • January 29 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
  • February 1 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
  • February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
  • February 6 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
  • February 9 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
  • February 18 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter
  • February 28 - Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
  • March 3 - William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
  • March 3 - Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
  • March 5 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
  • March 9 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
  • April 1 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
  • April 2 - C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
  • April 10 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
  • April 13 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
  • May 22 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • June 1 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
  • June 19 - Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
  • June 30 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One champion. First person to win an F1 championship. (b. 1906)
  • July 2 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
  • July 6 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
  • July 11 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
  • July 18 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer (b. 1942)
  • July 23 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
  • July 24 - Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
  • July 31 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
  • August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
  • August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
  • August 14 - Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
  • August 23 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
  • August 29 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
  • September 5 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
  • September 11 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
  • September 14 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
  • September 28 - André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)
  • October 7 - Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
  • October 7 - Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
  • October 13 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
  • October 16 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
  • October 17 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
  • October 18 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
  • October 18 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
  • October 26 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
  • October 30 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
  • November 2 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
  • November 7 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
  • November 15 - Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
  • December 5 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
  • December 8 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
  • December 15 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
  • December 27 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)

Events
  • January 1 - A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
  • January 1 - After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
  • January 12 - Lyndon B. 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 - The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
  • January 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping four 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident.
  • January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
  • January 24 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
  • January 26 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
  • January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre, New York.
  • January 31 - Luna program: soviet union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 is launched.
  • February 2 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
  • February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
  • February 4 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
  • February 12 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced famous Six Points in Karachi as election manifesto of Awami League that later led to formation of Bangladesh.
  • February 14 - Australian currency is decimalised.
  • February 23 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.
  • February 26 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
  • March 1 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • March 1 - The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
  • March 4 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
  • March 5 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
  • March 8 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
  • March 8 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
  • March 11 - Supersemar: President Sukarno of Indonesia is forced to give up his executive power.
  • March 11 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
  • March 16 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
  • March 17 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
  • March 19 - Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four, to start five black players.
  • March 31 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
  • April 21 - Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
  • April 25 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
  • April 26 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
  • May 6 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
  • May 16 - The Communist Party of China issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • May 21 - The Ulster Volunteer Force declare war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
  • May 25 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
  • May 25 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
  • May 26 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
  • May 30 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
  • June 2 - Surveyor program: The Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
  • June 6 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
  • June 8 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
  • June 8 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
  • June 13 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
  • June 14 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
  • June 27 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
  • July 1 - The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
  • July 2 - The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
  • July 4 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
  • July 6 - Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President.
  • July 18 - Gemini 10 launched.
  • July 24 - Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
  • 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 29 - Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.
  • August 1 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
  • August 1 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • August 6 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
  • August 7 - Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
  • August 16 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
  • August 18 - Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
  • August 22 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
  • August 23 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
  • August 29 - The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
  • September 6 - In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
  • September 8 - The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
  • September 8 - The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
  • September 9 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • September 12 - Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
  • September 15 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
  • September 16 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
  • September 29 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
  • September 30 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
  • October 1 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
  • October 4 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
  • October 5 - Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
  • October 6 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
  • October 14 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.
  • October 15 - Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
  • October 17 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • October 21 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
  • October 22 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
  • October 22 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
  • November 2 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
  • November 4 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno river floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books.
  • November 8 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
  • November 8 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
  • November 11 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
  • November 15 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • November 15 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
  • November 24 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • November 24 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
  • November 30 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • December 7 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
  • December 8 - The Greek SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
  • December 18 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
  • December 24 - A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
  • December 26 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.


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