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1966
Events * January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes over the Central African Republic. * January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco. * 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 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one into the sea * January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. * January 26 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires. * January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City. * January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service. * February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. * February 23 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government. * 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 - John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" later sparking controversy in the United States. * March 8 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it was going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam. * March 10 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. * March 17 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the ALVIN submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. * May 25 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches. * May 25 - In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. * May 26 - Guyana achieves independence. * March 31 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the moon. * July 4 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act will go into effect next year. * July 6 - Malawi becomes a republic. * July 14 - In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory. * July 18-July 21 - Gemini 10 orbits the earth. * 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. * August 10 - Lunar Orbiter 1 is launched. * August 16 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee 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. * September 30 - Botswana achieves independence. * October 4 - Lesotho achieves independence. * October 14 - Montreal metro system inaugurated. * December 1 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger becomes Chancellor of Germany. * November 6 - Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched. * November 30 - Barbados achieves independence. * December 26 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach * Cultural Revolution declared in China. * In Burundi, King Mwambutsa IV is deposed by his son Ntare IV, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero. * Rene Barrientos is elected president of Bolivia. * Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic. * US Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona. * Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found Black Panther Party. * Gwynfor Evans becomes first Plaid Cymru member of Parliament in UK. * Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rastafarian leaders * Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of Soviet Union, becomes candidate member of the Central Committee. * Surrealist Movement in the United States founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont. * Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn are awarded the Fermi Prize. * US Congress creates National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development. * Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language. * The DKW automobile goes out of production. * World Buddhist Sangha Council convened by Theravadins in Sri Lanka with the hope of bridging differences and working together. Art, Culture & Fashion * 1966 in film o A Man for All Seasons o Alfie o The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming o Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? o The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone * 1966 in literature o The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood o Expeditions by Margaret Atwood o Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein by Margaret Atwood o The Dartmoor Worker anthology of William Crossing o Der Meteor by Friedrich Drrenmatt o The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein o The Solid Mandala by Patrick White * 1966 in music o January 16 - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York City. o January 17 - Simon and Garfunkel release album Sounds of Silence. o October 10 - Simon and Garfunkel release album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. o August 29 - Beatles give last concert, in San Francisco. * 1966 in sports o July 30 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the first televised Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. * 1966 in television o Star Trek premieres. o January 12 - Batman debuts on ABC. o September 12 - The Monkees premieres. o Canadian television stations broadcast in color for the first time. Births * January 12 - Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer * January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, actor * January 17 - Shabba Ranks, singer * February 9 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete * February 11 - Anthony Parker, American football player * February 11 - Patrick Kuhnen, West German tennis player * February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor * February 20 - Cindy Crawford, model * February 22 - Brian Andrew Greig, statesman * February 24 - Billy Zane, actor * February 25 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete * March 3 - Tone Loc, musician * March 10 - Edie Brickell, singer * April 18 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower * May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, actor * May 13 - Darius Rucker, musician ("Hootie & the Blowfish") * May 16 - Krist Novoselic, a musician of Nirvana (band) * May 16 - Janet Jackson, singer * May 25 - Sugar Minott, singer * May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress * July 15 - Irne Jacob, actress * August 3 - Oliver Brown, ukulele performer and theorist * August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, classical music composer * August 14 - Halle Berry, actress * September 9 - Georg Hackl, German luger * September 4 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian punk-rock singer * November 12 - David Schwimmer, American actor. * November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress * November 17 - Jeff Buckley, singer * Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper Deaths * January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor * January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor * January 18 - Kathleen Norris, writer * February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director * February 1 - Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist * February 10 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader * February 20 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral * March 3 - Maxfield Parrish, artist * April 2 - C.S. Forester, author * June 7 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet * June 8 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer * August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian * August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author * September 6 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate * September 28 - Andre Breton, founder of surrealism * November 2 - Mississippi John Hurt * November 23 - Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Irteland * December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, actor * December 15 - Walt Disney Nobel Prizes * Physics - Alfred Kastler * Chemistry - Robert S. Mulliken * Medicine - Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins * Literature - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs * Peace - Not Awarded
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