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 4, 1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
- January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 2, 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- February 4, 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- February 14, 1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
- March 1, 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
- March 5, 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
- March 17, 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship DSV submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
- March 31, 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- April 30, 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
- May 6, 1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
- September 8, 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
- October 4, 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- October 14, 1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
- November 2, 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
- November 11, 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
- November 15, 1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
- December 27, 1966 – The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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