Year 1966 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1966

The year 1966 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1966 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

World Events

Important Historical Events of the Year 1966 in World ⚡

Date	Incident/Event
17 january	A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, dropping three hydrogen bombs on land near Palomares, Spain, and a fourth one into the sea.
26 january	The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.
05 march	BOAC Flight 911 disintegrated and crashed near Mount Fujishortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport, killing all113 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
10 march	Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguy?n Cao K? sacked rival General Nguy?n Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
11 march	Indonesian President Sukarno was forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar, giving Suharto the authority to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to restore order during the Indonesian killings.
15 may	Disapproving of his handling of the Buddhist Uprising, SouthVietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky ordered an attack on the forcesof General Ton That Dinh and ousted him from the position.
16 may	The Cultural Revolution was launched on May 16, 1966 by Mao Zedong, then chairman of the Communist Party of China. The revolution severely affected the country economically, socially and politically.
16 may	Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeois elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle.
25 may	Explorer 32 launched. Explorer 32, also known as Atmosphere Explorer-B (AE-B), was a satellite launched by the United States to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta-C1 rocket. It was the second of five Atmosphere Explorers, the first being Explorer 17.
26 may	British Guiana gained independence and became Guyana. British Guiana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, since 1966 known as the independent nation of Guyana. Its indigenous people are the Arawak-speaking Lucayan, part of the Taino people.
30 may	Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body. Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the unmanned Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States). This lunar soft-lander gathered data about the lunar surface that would be needed for the manned Apollo Moon landings that began in 1969.
02 june	Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world, Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the unmanned Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States). This lunar soft-lander gathered data about the lunar surface that would be needed for the manned Apollo Moon landings that began in 1969.
10 june	Indian version of MIG Fighter Aircraft designed at Nashik. This was originated from Russia. MIG Fighter Aircrafts played a major role during 1971 Indo-Pak war and Kargil war. These planes were extensively used by Indian Air force.
13 june	The Miranda v. Arizona landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court established the Miranda warning, requiring law enforcement officials to advise a suspect in custody of his rights to remain silent and to obtainan attorney.
14 june	The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list ofprohibited books.
01 july	The first colour television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. There are three main analog broadcast television systems in use around the world, PAL (Phase Alternating Line), NTSC (National Television System Committee), and SECAM (Séquentiel Couleur à Mémoire—Sequential Color with Memory).
06 july	Malawi became a republic country. The country adopted its new constitution n thus join the club of republic nations. Hastings Banda became the 1st president of Malawi. He was one of the leaders who were demanding the freedom for country.
08 july	King of Burundi Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng was displaced by his son Ntare-V. Burundi is a small landlocked country in African continent. It is one of the five poorest countries of the world. The history of Burundi is marked with genocides and political imbalances before becoming a republic.
10 july	Martin Luther King, Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights campaigns inthe northern United States.
15 july	Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
06 august	Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became emir and ruler of AbuDhabi, succeeding his brother, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, whowas deposed in a bloodless coup d'état.
13 august	China has declared it's Cultural Revolution. By reorganizing the present minor farming collectives into great cooperatives workers would be allowed to work in industry..
14 august	The U.S. Lunar Orbiter was made to capture photos of the moon’s landscape in order to prepare American astronauts landing on the lunar landscape.
18 august	Vietnam War-Members from D Company of the 6th Battalion of theRoyal Australian Regiment were surrounded and attacked on all sides by amuch larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan, but held them offfor several hours until reinforcements arrived.
23 august	The Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from an orbit around the Moon.
24 august	U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon.
26 august	The South African Defence Force launched an attack against SWAPO guerrilla fighters at Omugulugwombashe, starting the Namibian War of Independence.
06 september	Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African Prime Minister who apparently was the Architect of apartheid is murdered during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town
06 september	South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the 'architectof apartheid', was stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas.
08 september	The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on theNBC television network, launching a media franchise that has sincecreated a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many currenttechnologies.
08 september	Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, hailing it as thedawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
14 september	The minimum wage is to a new rate of $1.40 an hour which would include State and local government workers at public schools and nursing homes, as well as the construction industry.
17 september	FBI Agents today arrested 13 white men in Grenada, Mississippi. This was done on charges of savage attacks on young Negro school children using sticks, fists and a club on the children earlier this week.
30 september	Seretse Khama became the first President of Botswana when theBechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom.
12 october	The Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine has been presented to two American doctors, Francis Peyton Rousand Charles B Huggins. They dedicated their lives to battling Cancer.
13 november	The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault onthe Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to an al-Fatah land mine incident two days earlier near the West Bank border.
05 december	U.S suffered the largest loss of planes from the time when the Vietnam War commenced. The U.S. warplanes then reacted by attacking targets near Hanoi and shooting down an enemy plane.
18 december	Epimetheus one of the moons of Saturn was discovered but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
24 december	"Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances.
27 december	The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, was discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
02 June	The US launched a spacecraft on the moon in its first attempt.
24 June	117 people died when an Air India aircraft going from Mumbai to New York crashed in Mount Blanc, Switzerland.
30 July	England won World Cup football for the first time by defeating West Germany in the eighth FIFA World Cup.
08 September	UNESCO celebrated World Literacy Day for the first time by the United Nations Department of Education and Cultural.
10 September	The Indian Parliament today recognized the formation of the states of Punjab and Haryana.
12 September	Indian swimmer Mihir Sen floated and crossed the Dardanless Strait.
22 September	The American vehicle \ 'Savorier-2 \' hit the lunar surface.
30 September	Bechuanaland, the British protected state of South Africa, declared independence and became the Republic of Botswana.
04 October	The country of Lesotho declared its independence from Britain and today is celebrated as National Day in this country.
31 October	India's famous swimmer Mihir Sen floated and crossed the Panama Canal.
01 November	The state of Haryana was carved out of Punjab.
17 November	Rita Faria of India won the title of Miss World. She was the first Asian woman to become Miss World.
24 November	The first TV station opened in Kinsasa, the capital of Congo.
26 November	The world's first tidal power plant started functioning at the mouth of France's Rance River.
27 November	Uruguay adopted the constitution.
10 August	US space officials sent the first spacecraft from Cape Kennedy to take pictures of the appropriate location to land the rocket in space. Which crashed on the moon on 29 October.
15 December	Walt Disney, the founder of the world's largest animation company, died.
18 December	Astronomer Richard Walker discovered Saturn's satellite Epimetheus.
27 December	The world's longest cave \ Cave of Swallows \ was discovered in Aquisamon, Mexico.
04 January	The Tashkent Conference was organized with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan. As a result of this agreement, the second war between India and Pakistan ended.
11 January	The then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who raised the slogan of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, died in Tashkent.
13 January	The US conducted a nuclear test in Nawada.
19 January	The Congress Party chose Indira Gandhi as its leader for the post of Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was elected the fourth Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only daughter of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
23 January	Indira Gandhi became the third and first woman Prime Minister of India.
24 January	Air India's Boeing 707 aircraft crashed near the summit of Monglow in the hills of the Alps. 117 people died in it.
11 February	Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent.
16 February	Indian educationist and freedom fighter Sadhu Vaswani died.
26 February	Freedom fighter Vinayak Damadar Savarkar died.
05 March	A Boeing 707 plane crashed at Mount Fuji, Japan.
16 March	The US launched the manned spacecraft Gemini 8.
20 March	National Film Award winning singer Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata.
31 March	Soviet Russia launched the first Chandrayaan Luna-10.
06 April	Indian swimmer Mihir Sen swam across the Palk Strait.
15 April	The death of painter Nandlal Bose.
26 April	The Tashkent city of Uzbekistan was completely destroyed by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
04 January	The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan met in Moscow.
19 February	United Kingdom Naval Minister Christopher Mayu resigned.
05 March	Heavy theft of nuclear materials was detected in Brazil.
05 April	Indonesian forces demand, countries rejoin the United States.
12 May	Bush Memorial Stadium opened in St. Louis Missouri.
01 June	The White House Convention on Civil Rights.
12 July	Indira Gandhi visited Moscow.
05 August	Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino opens in Las Vegas.
16 September	In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang ended a 100-day hunger strike.
26 October	The headquarters of Brussels NATO were moved from Paris.
08 November	Actor Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California.
19 December	Asian Development Bank was started.

India Events

Important Historical Events of the Year 1966 in India ⚡

Date	Incident/Event
10 june	Indian version of MIG Fighter Aircraft designed at Nashik. This was originated from Russia. MIG Fighter Aircrafts played a major role during 1971 Indo-Pak war and Kargil war. These planes were extensively used by Indian Air force.
24 June	117 people died when an Air India aircraft going from Mumbai to New York crashed in Mount Blanc, Switzerland.
10 September	The Indian Parliament today recognized the formation of the states of Punjab and Haryana.
12 September	Indian swimmer Mihir Sen floated and crossed the Dardanless Strait.
31 October	India's famous swimmer Mihir Sen floated and crossed the Panama Canal.
17 November	Rita Faria of India won the title of Miss World. She was the first Asian woman to become Miss World.
04 January	The Tashkent Conference was organized with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan. As a result of this agreement, the second war between India and Pakistan ended.
19 January	The Congress Party chose Indira Gandhi as its leader for the post of Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was elected the fourth Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only daughter of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
23 January	Indira Gandhi became the third and first woman Prime Minister of India.
24 January	Air India's Boeing 707 aircraft crashed near the summit of Monglow in the hills of the Alps. 117 people died in it.
16 February	Indian educationist and freedom fighter Sadhu Vaswani died.
06 April	Indian swimmer Mihir Sen swam across the Palk Strait.
04 January	The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan met in Moscow.

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