1966 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1966?
- January 1, 1966 – After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
- January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- February 26, 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
- April 26, 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- April 30, 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
- May 25, 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
- July 1, 1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
- July 6, 1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
- July 8, 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
- July 10, 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- August 22, 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
- September 8, 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
- September 15, 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- September 16, 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
- October 1, 1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
- October 9, 1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- October 14, 1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
- November 4, 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
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