Historical Events in 1966 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 646

• Apr 25 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse, Belgium

• Apr 26 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Apr 26 International Olympic Committee votes to award German city of Munich the right to host the 1972 Summer Olympic Games

• Apr 28 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3

• Apr 28 Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
• Apr 28 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
• Apr 30 Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California
• May 1 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
• May 1 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
• May 1 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
• May 2 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
• May 3 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
• May 4 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR


• May 5 Borussia Dortmund of West Germany win 6th European Cup Winner's Cup against Liverpool of England 2-1 in Glasgow
• May 5 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Montreal Canadiens earn back-to-back titles; beat Detroit Red Wings, 3-2 in OT for a 4-2 series victory

• May 6 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
• May 6 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
• May 6 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England

• May 7 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
• May 7 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
• May 7 NY Yankees fire manager Johnny Keane
• May 8 Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to San Francisco

• May 9 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
• May 9 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• May 10 25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
• May 11 European Cup Final, Heysel Stadium, Brussels: Fernando Serena scores the winner as Real Madrid beats Partizan Belgrade, 2-1; Madrid's 6th title
• May 12 St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
• May 13 The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the UK
• May 13 US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• May 14 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)


• May 14 A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
• May 15 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset
• May 15 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
• May 16 The Beach Boys release their groundbreaking album "Pet Sounds", containing hit singles "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
• May 16 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
• May 16 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
• May 16 "May 16 Notification" released, Mao's official justification for the Cultural Revolution
• May 17 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
• May 20 19th Cannes Film Festival: "A Man and a Woman" directed by Claude Lelouch and "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians" directed by Pietro Germi jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
• May 21 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
• May 21 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
• May 21 91st Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
• May 21 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97

• May 21 A "loyalist" group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

• May 23 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
• May 24 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
• May 25 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
• May 25 "Au Hasard Balthazar", French film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Anne Wiazemsky and François Lafarge, is released
• May 26 Buddhist sets himself on fire at US consulate in Hué, South Vietnam
• May 26 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
• May 27 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes
• May 27 6 French fighters crash above Spain
• May 28 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
• May 28 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
• May 30 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

• May 30 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
• Jun 1 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

• Jun 1 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
• Jun 1 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
• Jun 2 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
• Jun 3 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
• Jun 3 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
• Jun 4 Single "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
• Jun 4 -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
• Jun 4 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
• Jun 5 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader

• Jun 6 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
• Jun 6 NFL & AFL announce their merger
• Jun 6 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement

• Jun 8 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970
• Jun 8 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

• Jun 10 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
• Jun 10 Beatles record "Rain" 1st to use reverse tapes
• Jun 10 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0

• Jun 10 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"


• Jun 11 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
• Jun 11 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
• Jun 11 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances
• Jun 11 "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 in the US
• Jun 11 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances
• Jun 11 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK
• Jun 11 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
• Jun 11 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (San Francisco)

• Jun 13 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
• Jun 14 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
• Jun 14 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

• Jun 16 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
• Jun 17 Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers

• Jun 21 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam

• Jun 22 South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
• Jun 24 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
• Jun 24 16th Berlin International Film Festival: "Cul-de-Sac" wins the Golden Bear
• Jun 25 Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• Jun 25 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
• Jun 25 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
• Jun 26 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
• Jun 26 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
• Jun 27 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
• Jun 27 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
• Jun 28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title


• Jun 29 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
• Jun 29 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
• Jun 30 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
• Jun 30 Leopoldville, Congo is renamed Kinshasa
• Jun 30 Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
• Jun 30 England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham; captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
• Jun 30 Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
• Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spaniard Manuel Santana wins last of 4 major titles beating American Dennis Ralston 6-4, 11-9, 6-4
• Jul 1 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
• Jul 1 NASA launches spacecraft Explorer 33
• Jul 1 Medicare goes into effect
• Jul 1 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• Jul 2 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll

• Jul 2 West Indian cricket batsman Basil Butcher scores career best 209 not out to guide tourists to a 139-run 3rd Test win over England at Trent Bridge
• Jul 3 US Open Women's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: American Sandra Spuzich wins by 1 from Carol Mann for her only LPGA major title
• Jul 3 Atlanta Braves Tony Cloninger, 1st NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game (17-3 v SF Giants)
• Jul 3 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska

• Jul 5 NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
• Jul 5 National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
• Jul 5 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
• Jul 6 Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president

• Jul 8 US airline strike (until Aug 19th)
• Jul 8 King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi

• Jul 12 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
• Jul 12 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis


• Jul 12 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
• Jul 12 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
• Jul 12 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
• Jul 13 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
• Jul 14 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
• Jul 14 53rd Tour de France won by Lucien Aimar of France
• Jul 16 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
• Jul 16 Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
• Jul 16 Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community
• Jul 17 "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 performances
• Jul 17 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
• Jul 17 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
• Jul 18 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
• Jul 18 Gemini 10 launches John Young & Michael Collins
• Jul 19 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
• Jul 19 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
• Jul 21 Gemini X returns to Earth
• Jul 21 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jul 23 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
• Jul 23 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
• Jul 23 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

• Jul 24 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Al Geiberger wins his only major title by 4 shots from Dudley Wysong
• Jul 25 Brian Jones final performance as a Rolling Stone

• Jul 26 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Jul 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

• Jul 29 In Nigerian counter-coup, Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi murdered, Yakubu Gowon appointed his successor
• Jul 30 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• Jul 30 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 after extra time
• Jul 30 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam

• Aug 1 Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas
• Aug 1 Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup d'état
• Aug 2 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
• Aug 3 South African government bans Beatle records
• Aug 4 8th British Empire Games & Commonwealth Games open in Kingston, Jamaica; first Games held outside 'White Dominions'
• Aug 5 33rd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0; 72,000 at Soldier Field

• Aug 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Aug 5 The Beatles release their "Revolver" album in the UK
• Aug 5 Beatles release single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
• Aug 5 West Indies cricket captain Gary Sobers scores 174 including a century between lunch & tea to set up a 4th Test win v England at Headingley
• Aug 6 Muhammad Ali knocks out English boxer Brian London in round 3 at Earl's Court in London to retain his undisputed world heavyweight title
• Aug 6 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge in Europe)
• Aug 6 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam

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