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1966 Calendar
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1966 Historical Event(s)
- January 1, 1966 – After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
- 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.
- May 21, 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
- August 7, 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- December 9, 1966 – Barbados joins the United Nations.
- December 18, 1966 – Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
- December 24, 1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
- December 26, 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- December 27, 1966 – The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Who Were Born On 1966?
- March 4, 1966 – Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays)
- April 18, 1966 – Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
- July 7, 1966 – Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
- July 16, 1966 – Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
- July 20, 1966 – Enrique Peña Nieto, American politician
- September 7, 1966 – Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
- October 20, 1966 – Patrick Volkerding, American computer operating systems developer
- December 27, 1966 – Bill Goldberg, American football player and professional wrestler
- December 31, 1966 – Lisa Joyner, American entertainment reporter