1966 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1966?
- January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
- March 16, 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
- April 26, 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- May 16, 1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- May 30, 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
- June 2, 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
- June 19, 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
- July 6, 1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
- July 24, 1966 – 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.
- August 6, 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
- August 7, 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- August 18, 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy Province.
- September 9, 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- October 4, 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- October 17, 1966 – 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.
- November 24, 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- December 8, 1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
- December 18, 1966 – Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
- December 26, 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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