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1966 Calendar

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•  January 12, 1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
•  January 13, 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
•  January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  February 4, 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
•  February 26, 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
•  March 17, 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship DSV submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
•  May 30, 1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
•  July 15, 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
•  August 22, 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
•  October 15, 1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

•  March 7, 1966 – Joy Tanner, American actress
•  March 9, 1966 – Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
•  April 25, 1966 – Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player
•  June 22, 1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
•  July 10, 1966 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
•  August 25, 1966 – Albert Belle, American baseball player
•  September 7, 1966 – Lutz Heilmann, German politician
•  September 23, 1966 – Pete Harnisch, American baseball player
•  October 17, 1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
•  December 30, 1966 – Bennett Miller, American film director