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.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
02 June	The US launched a spacecraft on the moon in its first attempt.
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.
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.
01 November	The state of Haryana was carved out of Punjab.
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.
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.
11 February	Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent.
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.
15 April	The death of painter Nandlal Bose.
26 April	The Tashkent city of Uzbekistan was completely destroyed by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
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.
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	Rejecting his attitude to deal with the Buddhist rebellion, South Korean Prime Minister Gujen Cao ordered to attack the Force General Ton Daity and removed him from the post.
16 May	On May 16, 1966, the cultural revolution was started by Maotse Tung, President of the Communist Party of China. The revolution severely affected the country economically, socially and politically.
16 May	Chinese leader Maotse Tung officially launched the cultural revolution as a campaign to relieve China from its generous bourgeois elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle.
25 May	Explorer 32 was launched. Explorer 32, also known as the atmosphere Explorer-B (AE-B), was a satellite launched by the United States to study the upper atmosphere of the Earth. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on the Delta-C1 rocket. It was the second of the five atmosphere explorers, the first Explorer 17.
26 May	The British Guyana gained independence and became Guyana. The British Guyana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, known as Guyana's independent nation in 1966. Its indigenous people are Arvak -speaking Lusayan, who are part of the Teno people.
30 May	The launch of Surveyor 1, the first American spacecraft to land on a supernatural body. Surveyor 1 was the first lunar softer in the unmanned surveyor program of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States). This lunar soft-glander collected figures about the lunar surface that would be necessary for the human apollo moon landing starting in 1969.
02 June	Surveyor Program: Surveyor 1 land in Oceanas Prosaelram on Moon became the first American spacecraft to soft-numbered in the second world, Surveyor 1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was the first lunar soft -lander in the unmanned surveyor program America). This lunar soft-glander collected figures about the lunar surface that would be required for the human apollo moon landing starting in 1969.
13 June	According to the decision of the Supreme Court of Miranda vs. Arizona established the Miranda warning, the law enforcement officers advised a suspect to remain silent and obtain a lawyer under the protection of his rights.
14 June	U.S. The Lunar Orbiter was designed to capture pictures of the moon landscape to prepare the American astronauts to land on the lunar landscape.
01 July	The first colorful television broadcast in Canada is from Toronto. There are three main analog broadcasting television systems used worldwide, PAL (Phase Alternating Line), NTSC (National Television System Committee), and Secam.
06 July	Malawi became a republic country. The country adopted its new constitution. Thus the Republic of Republic joined the club. Hastings became the first President of Banda Malawi. He was one of the leaders who were demanding independence for the country.
08 July	King Mabamutas IV Bangrikeng of Burundi was displaced by his son Ntare-V. Burundi is a small landowner in the African continent. It is one of the five poorest countries in the world. The history of Burundi is marked by massacres and political imbalance before becoming a republic.
10 July	Martin Luther King, Junior led a rally in support of the Chicago freedom movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights of North America.
15 July	Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam started Operation Hastings to exclude North Vietnamese from Vietnamese Vietnamese.
15 July	Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam started Operation Hastings to exclude North Vietnamese from Vietnamese Vietnamese.
06 August	Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan became the rich and ruler of Abu Dhabi, his brother, Sheikh Shahbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, which was depicted in a bloodless coup.
13 August	China has declared it a cultural revolution. In the great cooperative societies, workers will be allowed to work in the industry by reorganizing the current small agricultural collective.
14 August	U.S. The Lunar Orbiter was designed to capture pictures of the moon landscape to prepare the American astronauts to land on the lunar landscape.
18 August	Members of the Vietnam War-Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment surrounded and attacked them all around with the Viet Congress Unit in the Long Tan battle, but they had to stop for several hours until the strength came.
23 August	Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first picture of Earth from an orbit around the moon.
24 August	U.S.S.R launched Luna 11 for classes around the moon.
26 August	The South African Defense Force launched an attack against Swapo Guerrilla Fighters in Omgulugombavashe, with Namibia's freedom struggle.
06 September	South African Prime Minister, Handric Verowd, who was clearly a architect of apartheid, was murdered during a parliamentary constituency in Cape Town
06 September	South African Prime Minister Handric Vervord, who was 'architecture apartheid', was killed by Dimitri Tsfanda.
08 September	The American Science Fiction show Star Trek had a premiere on the NBC television network, with a media franchise launched, which has given birth to a creed phenomenon and affects the design of many current techniques.
08 September	Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sever Bridge, as a Urban of a new economic era to South Wales.
14 September	The minimum wage is at a new rate of $ 1.40 per hour which will include public schools and nursing homes, as well as state and local government workers in the construction industry.
17 September	FBI agents today arrested 13 white men in Grenada, Mississippi. This was earlier this week on allegations of barbaric attacks on young Negro school children using sticks, fists and a club on children.
30 September	Seratse Khama became the first President of Botswana, when Bachuanland Protecturet gained independence from the United Kingdom.
12 October	The Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine has been presented to two American doctors, Francis Peetan Rautand Charles B. Hugins. He dedicated his life to battle cancer.
13 November	The Israeli army attacked Samu's Jordan-controlled West Bank village in response to the al-Fatah land incident two days ago near the West Bank border.
05 December	The US suffered the biggest loss of aircraft from the time of the Vietnam war began. American warfare aircraft reacted by attacking hideouts near Hanoi and killing the enemy's aircraft.
18 December	Epimithius, one of the Moon of Saturn, was ignored, but was wrong as a Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they have two different items sharing the same class.
18 December	One of the Moon of Saturn was discovered by Extius, but it was seen as a Janus. It took twelve years to determine that they are items sharing the same class.
24 December	Mark Hellingor theater closed in New York City after Joyful Shore 12 demonstrations.
27 December	The Wall of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft of the DWW, was discovered in Aquismone, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
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.
10 June	Indian version of MIG Fighter Aircraft designed in Nashik. It was born from Russia. Mig fighter aircraft played a lead role during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and Kargil War. These aircraft were used extensively by the Indian Air Force.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
01 September	Faisal Khan / Actor / India
03 January	Chetan Sharma / Cricketer / India
04 September	Aadesh Shrivastava / Singer / India
06 January	A. R. Rahman / Musician / India
06 March	Makrand Deshpande / Actor / India
08 January	Pankaj Berry / Actor / India
11 November	Arif Zakaria / Actor / India
18 August	Vankadarath Saritha / Driver / India
19 December	Rajesh Chauhan / Cricketer / India
20 May	Manindra Agrawal / Scientist / India
28 August	Priya Dutt / Politician / India
28 September	Puri Jagannadh / Producer / India
31 January	Umar Alisha / Journalist / India

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