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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.
•  February 14, 1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
•  February 23, 1966 – In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
•  March 1, 1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
•  April 26, 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
•  June 14, 1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
•  July 18, 1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
•  August 23, 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
•  October 1, 1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
•  November 28, 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

•  January 12, 1966 – Olivier Martinez, French actor
•  February 17, 1966 – Michael Lepond, American musician (Symphony X)
•  February 24, 1966 – René Arocha, Cuban baseball player
•  June 6, 1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
•  June 15, 1966 – Idalis DeLeon, American actress and singer
•  July 8, 1966 – Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
•  August 13, 1966 – Sean Hood, American screenwriter
•  October 20, 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant and Al-Qaeda figure (d. 2006)
•  December 1, 1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
•  December 4, 1966 – Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter