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1966 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
•  January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  March 1, 1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
•  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.
•  June 14, 1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
•  August 7, 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
•  August 18, 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy Province.
•  October 9, 1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
•  October 17, 1966 – A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department’s deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
•  November 28, 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

•  January 6, 1966 – Ipče Ahmedovski, Serbo-Macedonian folk singer
•  February 8, 1966 – Bruno Labbadia, German footballer
•  April 22, 1966 – Dana Barron, American actress
•  June 6, 1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
•  July 7, 1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
•  September 26, 1966 – Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
•  October 17, 1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player
•  October 26, 1966 – Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
•  November 17, 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
•  December 17, 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician