1966 Calendar
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1966 Historical Event(s)
- January 4, 1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
- January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 17, 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship DSV submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
- May 30, 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
- August 7, 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- October 17, 1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
- November 4, 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
- November 13, 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
- November 24, 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
- November 28, 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
Who Were Born On 1966?
- April 30, 1966 – Dave Meggett, former NFL player and convicted sex offender
- July 4, 1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
- July 8, 1966 – Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor
- September 9, 1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- September 17, 1966 – Stéphane Rousseau, Canadian humorist and actor
- September 20, 1966 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
- September 30, 1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
- December 9, 1966 – Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister
- December 14, 1966 – Anthony Mason, American basketball player
- December 21, 1966 – Adam Schefter, American sports journalist