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1966 Calendar

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•  January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  March 16, 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
•  August 1, 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
•  August 7, 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
•  October 15, 1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
•  October 17, 1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
•  November 8, 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
•  November 15, 1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
•  December 9, 1966 – Barbados joins the United Nations.
•  December 27, 1966 – The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

•  January 19, 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
•  February 17, 1966 – Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
•  March 9, 1966 – Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
•  March 18, 1966 – Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
•  April 13, 1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
•  May 2, 1966 – Belinda Stronach, Canadian politician
•  May 31, 1966 – Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
•  June 8, 1966 – Doris Pearson, singer (Five Star)
•  September 30, 1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
•  November 25, 1966 – Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)