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From top to bottom, left to right: theCultural Revolution begins inCommunist China asMao Zedong mobilizes theRed Guards, plunging the nation into turmoil; the1966 FIFA World Cup inEngland sees thehost nation defeatWest Germany for its first and only title; theBeach Boys releasePet Sounds, an influential album produced byBrian Wilson;Gemini 8, piloted by American astronautsDavid Scott andNeil Armstrong, docks with theAgena target vehicle in the first-ever orbital docking procedure; theUniversity of Texas tower shooting shocks the U.S. asCharles Whitman kills sixteen people; the SovietLuna 9 achieves the first soft landing on theMoon and sends back photos; the1966 flood of the Arno devastatesFlorence, Italy, damaging priceless art and manuscripts;Star Trek premieres onNBC, inspiring generations of fans and creators; and theBuddhist Uprising inSouth Vietnam intensifies unrest amid theVietnam War.

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1966 in variouscalendars
Gregorian calendar	1966 MCMLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2719
Armenian calendar	1415 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6716
Baháʼí calendar	122–123
Balinese saka calendar	1887–1888
Bengali calendar	1372–1373
Berber calendar	2916
British Regnal year	14 Eliz. 2 – 15 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2510
Burmese calendar	1328
Byzantine calendar	7474–7475
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4663 or 4456 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4664 or 4457
Coptic calendar	1682–1683
Discordian calendar	3132
Ethiopian calendar	1958–1959
Hebrew calendar	5726–5727
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2022–2023
-Shaka Samvat	1887–1888
-Kali Yuga	5066–5067
Holocene calendar	11966
Igbo calendar	966–967
Iranian calendar	1344–1345
Islamic calendar	1385–1386
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 41 (昭和４１年)
Javanese calendar	1897–1898
Juche calendar	55
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4299
Minguo calendar	ROC 55 民國55年
Nanakshahi calendar	498
Thai solar calendar	2509
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 2092 or 1711 or 939 — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 2093 or 1712 or 940

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1966 (MCMLXVI) was acommon year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar, the 1966th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the2nd millennium, the 66th year of the20th century, and the 7th year of the1960s decade.

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January

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January 1 – In acoup, ColonelJean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of theCentral African Republic, ousting PresidentDavid Dacko.^[1]
January 3 –1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: PresidentMaurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in theRepublic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso).^[2]
January 10
- Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of theTashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime ministerLal Bahadur Shastri.^[3]
- The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representativeJulian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance.^[4]
January 15 –1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged inNigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime MinisterAbubakar Tafawa Balewa.^[5]
January 17
- The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, led by Major GeneralJohnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, leaving a military government in power and beginning a long period of military rule.^[6]
- 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A U.S. Air ForceB-52 bomber collides with aKC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town ofPalomares, and one into the sea.Carl Brashear, the first African-AmericanUnited States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter, which results in the amputation of his leg.
January 19 –Indira Gandhi is electedPrime Minister of India; she is sworn in onJanuary 24.
January 21 – Italian Prime MinisterAldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
January 22 – The military government ofNigeria announces that ex-prime ministerAbubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup a week previously.
January 24 –Air India Flight 101 crashes intoMont Blanc, killing all 117 people on board, includingHomi J. Bhabha, chairman of theIndian Atomic Energy Commission.
January 26 –Disappearance of the Beaumont children: Three children disappear on their way toGlenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again. Their fate remains unknown.^[7],1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election:Harold Holt is elected leader of theLiberal Party of Australia unopposed whenSir Robert Menzies retires after an unprecedented16 years in office; consequently Holt becomesPrime Minister of Australia six days later.
January 27
- The British government promises the U.S. that British troops inMalaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
- Britain'sLabour Party unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat ofHull North in aby-election, with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the 1964 General Election to 5,351.^[8]
January 31 – The United Kingdom ceases all trade withRhodesia.

February

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February 1 – Around 2,600political prisoners are released byEast Germany, in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head fromWest Germany.^[9]
February 3 – The unmanned SovietLuna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on theMoon.
February 4 –All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 people are killed.[1]
February 7
- TheGreat Fire of Iloilo, Philippines, breaks out in a lumber yard and burns for almost half a day, destroying nearly three-quarters of theCity Proper area and causing 50 million pesos in total property damage.^[10]^[11]^[12]
- Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States andNguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convene with other officials in asummit inHonolulu, Hawaii to discuss the course of theVietnam War.^[13]
February 14 – TheAustralian dollar is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.^[14]
February 19 – The naval minister of the United Kingdom,Christopher Mayhew, resigns over defence policy.
February 20 – While Soviet author and translatorValery Tarsis is abroad, theSoviet Union negates his citizenship.
February 23 –1966 Syrian coup d'état: An intra-party military coup inSyria replaces the previous government ofAmin al-Hafiz by one led bySalah Jadid.
February 24 – A coup led by the police and military ofGhana raises theNational Liberation Council to power while presidentKwame Nkrumah is abroad.
February 28 – British Prime MinisterHarold Wilson calls a general election in the United Kingdom, to be held on March 31.

March

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March – TheDKW automobile ceases production in Germany.^[15]
March 1
- The British Government announces plans for thedecimalisation of thepound sterling (hitherto denominated in 20 shillings and 240 pence to the £), to come into force on 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day).
- Sovietspace probeVenera 3 crashes onVenus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
- TheBa'ath Party takes power inSyria.
March 2 –Kwame Nkrumah arrives inGuinea and is grantedasylum.
March 4
- Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes during a night landing in poor visibility atTokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 people on board.
- In an interview withLondon Evening Standard reporterMaureen Cleave,John Lennon ofThe Beatles states: "We'remore popular than Jesus now."
March 5
- BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severeclear-air turbulence overMount Fuji soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
- Merci, Chérie byUdo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins theEurovision Song Contest 1966 (staged in Luxembourg) for Austria.
March 7 –Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state ofNATO equipment in France.^[16]
March 8
- Anti-communist demonstrations occur at theIndonesian Foreign Ministry.
- Vietnam War: The U.S. announces it will substantially increase the number of its troops inVietnam.
- Nelson's Pillar inO'Connell Street,Dublin, is clandestinely blown up by formerIrish Republican Army volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of theEaster Rising.
March 10 –Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marriesClaus von Amsberg.^[17] Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
March 11
- Transition to the New Order inIndonesia: PresidentSukarno gives allexecutive powers to GeneralSuharto by signing theSupersemar order.
- French PresidentCharles de Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out ofNATO and that all French NATO bases and headquarters must be closed within a year.
March 16 –NASA spacecraftGemini 8 (David Scott,Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with anAgena target vehicle.
March 20 – Football'sFIFA World Cup Trophy is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "Pickles" and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
March 22 – in the Chinese city ofXingtai a magnitude6.8 earthquake leaves more than 8,000 dead and 38,000 injured.
March 24 –Pope Paul VI meetsMichael Ramsey, theArchbishop of Canterbury, in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.^[18]
March 26 – Demonstrations are held across the United States against theVietnam War.^[19]
March 28 –Cevdet Sunay becomes the fifth president ofTurkey.^[20]
March 29 – The23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held:Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces thatChinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.^[21]
March 31
- The BritishLabour Party led byHarold Wilson wins the1966 United Kingdom general election, gaining a 96-seat majority (compared with a single seat majority when the election was called on February 28).^[22]
- TheSoviet Union launchesLuna 10, which becomes the firstspace probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

April

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April 2 – TheIndonesian army demands that the country rejoin theUnited Nations.
April 3 –Luna 10 is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.
April 5 – During theBuddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime ministerNguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city ofĐà Nẵng before backing down.^[23]
April 7 – The United Kingdom asks theUnited Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stopoil tankers that violate the embargo againstRhodesia (authority is givenApril 10).
April 8
- Buddhists inSouth Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date forfree elections.
- Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of theSoviet Union, as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
April 14
- Kenyan Vice PresidentOginga Odinga resigns, saying "invisible government" representing foreign interests now runs the country. He will head a new party, theKenya People's Union.
- TheSouth Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
April 15 – An anti-Nasser conspiracy is exposed inEgypt.
April 18
- China declares that it will stop economic aid toIndonesia.
- The38th Academy Awards ceremony is held inSanta Monica, California:The Sound of Music winsBest Picture.
April 19 –Moors murders:Ian Brady andMyra Hindley go on trial atChester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November1963 and October1965.
April 21
- Anartificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in aHouston, Texas, hospital.
- The opening of theParliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.
- Haile Selassie visitsJamaica for the first time, meeting withRasta leaders.
April 24 –Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.
April 26
- A new government is formed in theRepublic of the Congo, led byAmbroise Noumazalaye.
- The magnitude 5.1Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city inSoviet Central Asia with a maximumMSK intensity of VII (Very strong).Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
April 27 –Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign MinisterAndrei Gromyko meet in theVatican (the first meeting between leaders of theRoman Catholic Church and theSoviet Union).
April 28 – InRhodesia, security forces kill sevenZANLA men in combat;Chimurenga, theZANU rebellion, begins.
April 30 – Regularhovercraft service begins over theEnglish Channel (discontinued in 2000).

May

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May 4
- Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in theSoviet Union.
- May 1966 lunar eclipse: A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place, the 64th lunar eclipse ofLunar Saros 111.
May 5 – TheMontreal Canadiens defeat theDetroit Red Wings to win theStanley Cup in ice hockey.
May 6 – TheMoors murders trial ends in the UK withIan Brady being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment.Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, receiving two concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory.
May 7 – Irish bank workersgo on strike.
May 12
- African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
- Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane overYunnan (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
May 14 –Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation inCyprus.
May 15
- Indonesia asksMalaysia for peace negotiations.
- TheSouth Vietnamese army besiegesDa Nang.
- Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket theWhite House, then rally at theWashington Monument.
May 16
- TheChinese Communist Party issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of theCultural Revolution.
- A strike is called by theNational Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom.^[24]
- In New York City, Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on theVietnam War.
May 19 – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-oldSylvia Likens in Indianapolis, United States, and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December1985).^[25]
May 24
- Battle of Mengo Hill:Ugandan army troops arrestMutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.^[26]
- TheNigerian government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.
May 25
- Explorer program: SatelliteExplorer 32 (Atmosphere Explorer-B) is launched from the United States.
- No. 9 Squadron RAAF becomes part of the 4,500 strongAustralian Task Force assigned to duties inVietnam, leaving forSoutheast Asia aboard the aircraft carrierHMASSydney.^[27]
May 26 –British Guiana achieves independence from the United Kingdom, becomingGuyana.
May 28
- Fidel Castro declaresmartial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
- TheIndonesian andMalaysian governments declare that theIndonesia–Malaysia confrontation is over (a treaty is signed onAugust 11).
- Boat rideIt's a Small World opens atDisneyland.
May 29 – Sports stadiumEstadio Azteca officially opens inMexico City in advance of the1968 Summer Olympics.^[28]
May 31 – ThePhilippines reestablishesdiplomatic relations withMalaysia.

June

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June 2
- Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president, aged 84.
- Surveyor program:Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on theMoon, becoming the first U.S.spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
- Four former cabinet ministers includingÉvariste Kimba are executed in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo for alleged involvement in a plot to killMobutu Sese Seko.
June 3 –Joaquín Balaguer is elected president of theDominican Republic.
June 5 –Gemini 9A:Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).
June 6 –Civil rights activistJames Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in theMarch Against Fear.
June 8
- ANorth American XB-70 Valkyrie strategic bomber prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with anF-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot.NASA pilotJoseph A. Walker andUSAF test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
- 1966 Topeka tornado:Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on theFujita scale, the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, and the campus ofWashburn University suffers catastrophic damage.^[29]
June 12 – Chicago'sDivision Street riots begin in response to police shooting of a young Puerto Rican man.
June 13 –Miranda v. Arizona: TheSupreme Court of the United States rules that the police must informsuspects of their rights before questioning them.
June 14 – TheVatican abolishes theIndex Librorum Prohibitorum.
June 17 – AnAir France personnel strike begins.
June 18 –CIA chiefWilliam Raborn resigns;Richard Helms becomes his successor.
June 28 –Argentine Revolution: InArgentina, amilitary junta calling itselfRevolución Argentina deposes presidentArturo Umberto Illia in acoup and appoints GeneralJuan Carlos Onganía to power.
June 29
- Vietnam War: U.S. planes begin bombingHanoi andHaiphong.^[30]
- The strike by theNational Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom is called off.^[24]
June 30
- France formally leaves the military structure ofNATO.
- TheNational Organization for Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, D.C.

July

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July 1 –Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of theDominican Republic.^[31]
July 3
- 31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters in front of theUnited States Embassy in London inGrosvenor Square turns violent.
- René Barrientos is electedPresident of Bolivia.
July 6 –Malawi becomes a republic.
July 7 – AWarsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
July 8 – KingMwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his sonNtare V, who is in turn deposed by prime ministerMichel Micombero.
July 11 – The1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
July 12 –Zambia threatens to leave theCommonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures toRhodesia.
July 13 – InChicago, United States,Richard Speck breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.^[32]^[33]
July 14
- Israeli andSyrian jet fighters clash over theJordan River.
- Gwynfor Evans, President ofPlaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament forCarmarthen, taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
July 18
- Gemini 10 (John Young,Michael Collins) is launched from the United States. After docking with anAgena target vehicle, the astronauts set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
- TheInternational Court of Justice rules in favour of South Africa in a case on the administration ofSouth West Africa which has been brought before them byEthiopia andLiberia.
July 22 – Following thedeath of Hsu Tsu-tsai, a visiting engineer, in The Hague under suspicious circumstances, the Chinese government declares Dutch diplomat G. J. Jongejanspersona non grata, but tells him not to leave China before Hsu's Chinese associates have been permitted to leave the Netherlands.
July 23 –Katangese troops inStanleyville,Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled ministerMoise Tshombe.
July 24
- U.N. Secretary GeneralU Thant visits Moscow.
- A USAFF-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North VietnameseSAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast ofHanoi, the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamesesurface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.^[34]
July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues thePractice Statement in theHouse of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House, when acting in a judicial capacity, is not bound to follow its own previousprecedent.
July 28 – The U.S. announces that aLockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
July 29
- 1966 Nigerian counter-coup: Army officers from the north ofNigeria execute head of state GeneralAguiyi-Ironsi and installYakubu Gowon.
- La Noche de los Bastones Largos: Junta takes over Argentine universities.
- Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home inWoodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.
July 30 –England beatsWest Germany 4–2 to win the1966 FIFA World Cup atWembley afterextra time.
July 31 –Loss of MVDarlwyne: a pleasure cruiser disappears off theCornwall coast of England with the loss of all 31 aboard.^[35]

August

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August 1
- SniperCharles Whitman kills 15 people and wounds 31 from roof of theUniversity of Texas at Austin Main Building tower in the United States, after earlier killing hiswife andmother.^[36]
- The BritishColonial Office merges with theCommonwealth Relations Office to form a newCommonwealth Office.
August 5 – TheCaesars Palace hotel and casino opens inLas Vegas, United States.
August 6
- Braniff International Airways Flight 250 crashes inFalls City, Nebraska, United States, killing all 42 of those on board.^[37]
- René Barrientos takes office as the President ofBolivia.
- TheSalazar Bridge (later the25 de Abril Bridge) opens inLisbon, Portugal.
August 10 –Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon, is launched.
August 11
- Indonesia and Malaysia issue a joint peace declaration, formally ending theIndonesia–Malaysia confrontation which began in 1963.
- The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during whichJohn Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
August 12 –Massacre of Braybrook Street: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
August 15 –Syrian andIsraeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as theSea of Galilee) for 3 hours.
August 17 –Saudi Arabia and theUnited Arab Republic begin negotiations inKuwait to end the war inYemen.
August 18 –Vietnam War –Battle of Long Tan: D Company, 6th Battalion of theRoyal Australian Regiment, meets and defeats aViet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, in Phuoc Tuy Province,Republic of Vietnam.
August 19 – The 6.8M_w Varto earthquake affects the town of Varto in easternTurkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 2,394–3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.
August 21 – Seven men are sentenced to death inEgypt for anti-Nasser agitation.
August 22
- TheAsian Development Bank (ADB) is established.
- The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of theUnited Farm Workers of America (UFW), is formed.
August 26 – The first battle of the South African Air Force and theSouth African Police withPLAN, the armed wing of theSouth West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), takes place atOngulumbashe during Operation Blue Wildebeest, triggering theSouth African Border War which continues until1989.
August 29 –The Beatles end theirU.S. tour with a concert atCandlestick Park inSan Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.
August 30 – France offers independence toFrench Somaliland (Djibouti from 1977).

September

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September 30:Botswana becomes independent

September 1
- United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
- 98 British tourists die whenBritannia Airways Flight 105 crashes inLjubljana,Yugoslavia.
September 6 – South African Prime MinisterHendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament byDimitri Tsafendas.
September 9 –NATO decides to moveSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to Belgium.
September 12 –B. J. Vorster becomes the newPrime Minister of South Africa.
September 13 –Cultural Revolution in China: Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported byTASS in the Soviet Union.
September 16
- In South Vietnam,Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.
- TheMetropolitan Opera House opens atLincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere ofSamuel Barber's operaAntony and Cleopatra.
September 19 – Indonesian military commander (later President)Suharto announces the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations.
September 29 –Hurricane Inez strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in theDominican Republic andHaiti.^[38]
September 30
- TheBechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom asBotswana, withSeretse Khama as its firstPresident.
- Baldur von Schirach andAlbert Speer are released fromSpandau Prison in West Berlin.

October

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October 1 –West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south ofWemme, Oregon, the first loss of aDC-9.^[39]
October 3 –Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with theUnited Arab Republic.
October 4
- Israel applies for membership in theEuropean Economic Community, which is never granted.
- Basutoland becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the nameLesotho.
October 5
- UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
- Spain closes itsGibraltar border to vehicular traffic.^[40]
- An experimentalbreeder reactor at theEnrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
October 6
- LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.
- The Love Pageant Rally takes place in thePanhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco'sHaight-Ashbury district).
October 7 – TheSoviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
October 9 –Vietnam War:Binh Tai Massacre.
October 11 – France and theSoviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
October 14
- Closure ofIntra Bank begins a crisis in the Lebanese banking system.
- The city ofMontreal inaugurates theMontreal Metro system.
October 15 –Bobby Seale andHuey P. Newton found theBlack Panther Party in the United States.
October 17 –Lesotho andBotswana are admitted to theUnited Nations.
October 21 –Aberfan disaster inSouth Wales (U.K.): 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.^[41]
October 26
- NATO decides to move its headquarters from Paris toBrussels.^[42]
- A fire aboard the US aircraft carrierUSS Oriskany in theGulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.
October 27
- TheUnited Nations terminates the mandate given by theLeague of Nations and proclaims thatSouth West Africa will be administrated by the United Nations. This is rejected by South Africa.
- Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans forEPCOT, a utopianplanned city to be built in Florida.

November

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November 30:Barbados becomes independent

November 2
- TheCuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000Cubans the opportunity to apply forpermanent residency in the United States.^[43]
- North Korean commandos ambush a UN command control consisting of2nd Infantry Division soldiers south of theKorean Demilitarized Zone.^[44]
November 4 –1966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hitsFlorence, flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, asevere tidal flood hitsVenice.
November 5 – Thirty-eight African states demand that theUnited Kingdom use force against theRhodesian government.
November 6 –Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched.
November 8 – Screen actorRonald Reagan is electedGovernor of California.
November 10 –Seán Lemass retires asTaoiseach of theRepublic of Ireland, to be replaced in the role by fellowFianna Fáil memberJack Lynch.
November 11
- A mine kills threeIsraeli paratroopers on theWest Bank border.
- Spain declares a general amnesty for crimes committed during theSpanish Civil War, effective only for theFalangists' side.
November 12 – A totalsolar eclipse occurs, the 20th solar eclipse ofSolar Saros 142.
November 15 –Gemini 12 (James A. Lovell,Buzz Aldrin) splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km (370 mi) east ofthe Bahamas.
November 17
- The U.N. General Assembly decides to found theUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization.
- A spectacularLeonid meteor shower passes overArizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
November 24 –TABSO Flight 101, from Sofia, Bulgaria, crashes nearBratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.^[45]
November 26
- 1966 Australian federal election:Harold Holt'sLiberal/Country Coalition government is re-elected with a significantly increased majority, defeating theLabor Party led byArthur Calwell. Calwell resigns as Labor leader shortly after; he will bereplaced by his deputy and futurePrime Minister Gough Whitlam.
- In theCanadian Football League, theSaskatchewan Roughriders defeat theOttawa Rough Riders to win the54th Grey Cup atVancouver'sEmpire Stadium 29–14. Saskatchewan are led by quarterbackRon Lancaster.
November 27 – TheWashington Redskins defeat theNew York Giants 72–41 in the highest scoring game inNational Football League history.
November 28 –Truman Capote'sBlack and White Ball ("The Party of the Century") is held in New York City.
November 29 – TheSS Daniel J. Morrell sinks in a storm onLake Huron, killing 28 of 29 crewmen.
November 30 –Barbados achievesindependence from the United Kingdom.

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December 1
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger is electedChancellor of West Germany.
- British Prime MinisterHarold Wilson andRhodesian Prime ministerIan Smith negotiate aboardHMS Tiger in the Mediterranean.
December 2 –U Thant agrees to serve a second term as United Nations Secretary General.
December 3 – Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur inMacau; acurfew is declared the next day.
December 5 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules inBond v. Floyd that the Georgia House of Representatives must seat Julian Bond, having violated hisFirst andFourteenth Amendment rights.
December 6 –Vietnam War:Bình Hòa massacre.
December 7
- Syria offers weapons to rebels inJordan.
- Barbados isadmitted to the United Nations.
December 8 – The Typaldos Line's ferrySS Heraklion sinks in rough seas in theAegean Sea nearCrete, leaving 217 dead.
December 16
- The United Nations Security Council approves an oil embargo againstRhodesia.
- TheInternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are adopted by the General Assembly, as Resolution 2200 A (XXI).
December 17 – South Africa does not join thetrade embargo againstRhodesia.
December 18 –How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated byBoris Karloff, is shown for the first time onCBS in the United States. It becomes aChristmas tradition.
December 19 – TheAsian Development Bank begins operations.
December 20 – U.K. Prime MinisterHarold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to theRhodesian government and announces that he will agree toindependence for the country only after the establishment of a Black majority government there.
December 22 – Prime MinisterIan Smith declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
December 26 – The firstKwanzaa is celebrated byMaulana Karenga, founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and chair ofBlack Studies atCalifornia State University, Long Beach, from 1989 to 2002.^[46]
December 31
- East German PremierWalter Ulbricht discusses negotiations aboutGerman reunification.
- Eight paintings worth millions of pounds are stolen fromDulwich Picture Gallery in London, but are recovered locally within a week.
- The Congolese government takes over theUnion Minière du Haut Katanga.

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Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of theSoviet Union, becomes a candidate member of theCentral Committee.
Lise Meitner andOtto Hahn are awarded theFermi Prize.
TheCongress of the United States creates the National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development.
Martin Richards designs the programming languageBCPL.
The World BuddhistSangha Council is convened byTheravadins inSri Lanka, with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
TheJerusalem Bible, aRoman Catholic translation, is published in English.
Peter L. Berger andThomas Luckmann publishThe Social Construction of Reality.
Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putativecellular mechanism oflearning andmemory, is first observed byTerje Lømo inOslo, Norway.
In or about this year, one person returning toHaiti from theCongo is thought to have first broughtHIV to theAmericas.^[47]