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Events on the year of 1966 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
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01 Jan 1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
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01 Jan 1966 After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
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01 Jan 1966 A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
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02 Jan 1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
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02 Jan 1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
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03 Jan 1966 Floyd B McKissick, named National Director of CORE
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04 Jan 1966 Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
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04 Jan 1966 WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Jan 1966 A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
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07 Jan 1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
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07 Jan 1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
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08 Jan 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French Premier
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08 Jan 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
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09 Jan 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
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10 Jan 1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
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10 Jan 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
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11 Jan 1966 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
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11 Jan 1966 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
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12 Jan 1966 "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
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12 Jan 1966 12 day NYC transit strike ends
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12 Jan 1966 LBJ says US should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends
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12 Jan 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
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12 Jan 1966 12 day New York City NY transit strike ends
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12 Jan 1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics
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13 Jan 1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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13 Jan 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 Jan 1966 1st black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
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14 Jan 1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
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15 Jan 1966 The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
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15 Jan 1966 AFL Pro Bowl All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
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16 Jan 1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
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16 Jan 1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
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17 Jan 1966 B-52 / KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
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17 Jan 1966 Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
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17 Jan 1966 USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
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17 Jan 1966 Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
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18 Jan 1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
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19 Jan 1966 Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine, " premieres in London
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19 Jan 1966 Neil Simon, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity" premieres
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19 Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
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21 Jan 1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
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24 Jan 1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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25 Jan 1966 WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood New Jersey (NBC) 1st broadcast
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26 Jan 1966 The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
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26 Jan 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 06.2)
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27 Jan 1966 Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966
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29 Jan 1966 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
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29 Jan 1966 Lawry and Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs. England, Adelaide
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29 Jan 1966 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 608 performances
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29 Jan 1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165
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29 Jan 1966 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
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29 Jan 1966 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
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30 Jan 1966 -19
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30 Jan 1966 -27
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30 Jan 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 05.2)
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30 Jan 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet
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31 Jan 1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
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31 Jan 1966 USSR launches Luna 9 toward the Moon
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31 Jan 1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
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02 Feb 1966 Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
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03 Feb 1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
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03 Feb 1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
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03 Feb 1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
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04 Feb 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
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04 Feb 1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
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05 Feb 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
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07 Feb 1966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Feb 1966 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
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10 Feb 1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
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11 Feb 1966 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
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13 Feb 1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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14 Feb 1966 Australian currency is decimalised.
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14 Feb 1966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
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14 Feb 1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
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14 Feb 1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Dani
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15 Feb 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
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16 Feb 1966 Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours
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16 Feb 1966 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK
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16 Feb 1966 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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17 Feb 1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
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20 Feb 1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in the USSR
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21 Feb 1966 Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution
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22 Feb 1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
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23 Feb 1966 In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
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23 Feb 1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
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23 Feb 1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
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23 Feb 1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
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24 Feb 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
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25 Feb 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
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26 Feb 1966 Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
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26 Feb 1966 Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
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26 Feb 1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Feb 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain
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27 Feb 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR
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27 Feb 1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
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27 Feb 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria
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28 Feb 1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
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28 Feb 1966 Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
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01 Mar 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
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01 Mar 1966 The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
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01 Mar 1966 Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
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02 Mar 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
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03 Mar 1966 Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
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03 Mar 1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
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03 Mar 1966 Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
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03 Mar 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Mar 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
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04 Mar 1966 John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
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04 Mar 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
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04 Mar 1966 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
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05 Mar 1966 75 mph air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
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05 Mar 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
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05 Mar 1966 BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
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07 Mar 1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
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08 Mar 1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
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08 Mar 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
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08 Mar 1966 A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
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09 Mar 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
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10 Mar 1966 Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
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10 Mar 1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
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10 Mar 1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
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10 Mar 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
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11 Mar 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
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12 Mar 1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
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12 Mar 1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
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12 Mar 1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
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12 Mar 1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco]
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13 Mar 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
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15 Mar 1966 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Streisand
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15 Mar 1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
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16 Mar 1966 Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
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16 Mar 1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
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16 Mar 1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
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17 Mar 1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
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17 Mar 1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
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17 Mar 1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
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18 Mar 1966 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 3 performances
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18 Mar 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
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18 Mar 1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
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19 Mar 1966 "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 3 performances
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19 Mar 1966 Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup.
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19 Mar 1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65
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19 Mar 1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
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20 Mar 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
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21 Mar 1966 Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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21 Mar 1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
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23 Mar 1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
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24 Mar 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
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25 Mar 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled
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25 Mar 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
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27 Mar 1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
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27 Mar 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
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29 Mar 1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
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29 Mar 1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 Mar 1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
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31 Mar 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
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31 Mar 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY
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31 Mar 1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
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31 Mar 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
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01 Apr 1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
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01 Apr 1966 China Premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
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02 Apr 1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Apr 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
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03 Apr 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
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03 Apr 1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
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04 Apr 1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
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05 Apr 1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
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06 Apr 1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India
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07 Apr 1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
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08 Apr 1966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
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08 Apr 1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary General of communist party
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08 Apr 1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
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09 Apr 1966 Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
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09 Apr 1966 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
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11 Apr 1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
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11 Apr 1966 30th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288; Jack Nicklaus is the 1st man to win consecutive Masters
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12 Apr 1966 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Atlanta Braves 3-2
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12 Apr 1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his Corvette into a parked truck
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12 Apr 1966 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
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13 Apr 1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
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15 Apr 1966 Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
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15 Apr 1966 The Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
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15 Apr 1966 KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Apr 1966 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
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17 Apr 1966 100th international soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)
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17 Apr 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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18 Apr 1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
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19 Apr 1966 Roberta Bignay becomes the 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
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19 Apr 1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
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19 Apr 1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chicago
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20 Apr 1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting
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21 Apr 1966 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
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21 Apr 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
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22 Apr 1966 Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4
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22 Apr 1966 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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24 Apr 1966 Atlanta Braves win National League-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
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24 Apr 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
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25 Apr 1966 The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
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25 Apr 1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
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26 Apr 1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
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26 Apr 1966 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
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26 Apr 1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
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27 Apr 1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
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28 Apr 1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music, " Julie Christie and L Marvin win
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28 Apr 1966 20th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
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28 Apr 1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
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28 Apr 1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
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30 Apr 1966 The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco.
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01 May 1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
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01 May 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
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01 May 1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
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01 May 1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
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02 May 1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
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03 May 1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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04 May 1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in the USSR
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05 May 1966 Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
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05 May 1966 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
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05 May 1966 Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
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06 May 1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
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06 May 1966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
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06 May 1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
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07 May 1966 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
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07 May 1966 Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
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07 May 1966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
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08 May 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
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08 May 1966 Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Cardinals lose 10-5 to San Francisco
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08 May 1966 A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
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09 May 1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
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10 May 1966 25
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11 May 1966 Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
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12 May 1966 Busch Stadium (St Louis MO) opens, Braves lose to Cardinals 4-3 in 12 innings
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13 May 1966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
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13 May 1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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13 May 1966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
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14 May 1966 "A Lover's Concerto" by Mrs Miller hits #95
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14 May 1966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (New Jersey)
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15 May 1966 After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.
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15 May 1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs Somerset
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15 May 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
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15 May 1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
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16 May 1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
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16 May 1966 The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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16 May 1966 Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is released
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16 May 1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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17 May 1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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21 May 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
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21 May 1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
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21 May 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
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21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 May 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
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21 May 1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
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21 May 1966 "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
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21 May 1966 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
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21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in London
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22 May 1966 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
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22 May 1966 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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23 May 1966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
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23 May 1966 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
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24 May 1966 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
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25 May 1966 Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
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25 May 1966 The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
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25 May 1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
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26 May 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from the UK
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26 May 1966 British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
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26 May 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hu
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27 May 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
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27 May 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
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28 May 1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
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28 May 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
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29 May 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
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30 May 1966 The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
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30 May 1966 Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
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30 May 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
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30 May 1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
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30 May 1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
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01 Jun 1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
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01 Jun 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected President of Dominican Republic
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01 Jun 1966 Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
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02 Jun 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
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02 Jun 1966 Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
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03 Jun 1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
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03 Jun 1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
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04 Jun 1966 "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
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04 Jun 1966 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
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05 Jun 1966 Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
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05 Jun 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
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06 Jun 1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
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06 Jun 1966 Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
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06 Jun 1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
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06 Jun 1966 NFL and AFL announce their merger
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06 Jun 1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
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07 Jun 1966 New York Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
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08 Jun 1966 NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970
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08 Jun 1966 An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
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08 Jun 1966 Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
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10 Jun 1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK
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10 Jun 1966 Beatles record "Rain, " 1st to use reverse tapes
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10 Jun 1966 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washingston Senator, 2-0
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10 Jun 1966 Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
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10 Jun 1966 Janis Joplins 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
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11 Jun 1966 "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3
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11 Jun 1966 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances
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11 Jun 1966 "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
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11 Jun 1966 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances
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11 Jun 1966 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in the UK
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11 Jun 1966 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (San Francisco)
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11 Jun 1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
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12 Jun 1966 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
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12 Jun 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
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13 Jun 1966 The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
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13 Jun 1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
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14 Jun 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
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14 Jun 1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
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14 Jun 1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
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16 Jun 1966 "Rowan & Martin Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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16 Jun 1966 20th Tony Awards: Marat / Sade and Man of La Mancha win
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19 Jun 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
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19 Jun 1966 Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
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20 Jun 1966 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
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20 Jun 1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
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21 Jun 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
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24 Jun 1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die
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24 Jun 1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
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25 Jun 1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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25 Jun 1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
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26 Jun 1966 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
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26 Jun 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
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27 Jun 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows, " premieres on ABC-TV
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27 Jun 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers
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27 Jun 1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
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28 Jun 1966 Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
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29 Jun 1966 In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time
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29 Jun 1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
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29 Jun 1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities
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30 Jun 1966 Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
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30 Jun 1966 Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th Director of CIA
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30 Jun 1966 Vice Admiral William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th Director of CIA
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30 Jun 1966 The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
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30 Jun 1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
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01 Jul 1966 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
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01 Jul 1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART
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01 Jul 1966 Explorer 33 launched
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01 Jul 1966 Medicare goes into effect
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01 Jul 1966 VVV soccer team forms in Venlo
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01 Jul 1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
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02 Jul 1966 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
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02 Jul 1966 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
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02 Jul 1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
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03 Jul 1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
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03 Jul 1966 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
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04 Jul 1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
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04 Jul 1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
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04 Jul 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
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05 Jul 1966 National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
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05 Jul 1966 New York City transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
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05 Jul 1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
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06 Jul 1966 Malawi becomes a Republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes President
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06 Jul 1966 Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
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08 Jul 1966 US airline strike (until August 19th)
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08 Jul 1966 King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
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09 Jul 1966 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
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10 Jul 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
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10 Jul 1966 US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
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10 Jul 1966 The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
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10 Jul 1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
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12 Jul 1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
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12 Jul 1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stadium, St. Louis
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12 Jul 1966 All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
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12 Jul 1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
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12 Jul 1966 26.70 cm (10.51") of rainfall, Sandusky, Ohio (state record)
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12 Jul 1966 Most rain fell in 1 day in Ohio, 10.5" in Sandusky
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12 Jul 1966 NL beats AL 2-1 (10 innings) in 37th All Star Game (Busch, St Louis)
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12 Jul 1966 Race riot in Chicago
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12 Jul 1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver
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13 Jul 1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
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14 Jul 1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
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15 Jul 1966 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
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16 Jul 1966 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
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17 Jul 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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17 Jul 1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
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17 Jul 1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
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17 Jul 1966 Pioneer 7 launched
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18 Jul 1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
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18 Jul 1966 Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
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18 Jul 1966 Australian children's television series Play School airs for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running children's show in the world
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18 Jul 1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
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18 Jul 1966 Gemini 10 launched
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19 Jul 1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
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19 Jul 1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
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21 Jul 1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
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23 Jul 1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
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23 Jul 1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
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23 Jul 1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
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24 Jul 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
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24 Jul 1966 Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
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25 Jul 1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
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25 Jul 1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
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25 Jul 1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
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25 Jul 1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
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26 Jul 1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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29 Jul 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York
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29 Jul 1966 Nigerians Chief of Staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
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30 Jul 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
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30 Jul 1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
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30 Jul 1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
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30 Jul 1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
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31 Jul 1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
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31 Jul 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
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01 Aug 1966 Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead
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01 Aug 1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 andwounds 31 at University of Texas
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01 Aug 1966 Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
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01 Aug 1966 Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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02 Aug 1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
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03 Aug 1966 S African government bans Beatle records
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05 Aug 1966 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)
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05 Aug 1966 Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus
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05 Aug 1966 Beatles release "Revolver" album in US
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05 Aug 1966 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and"Eleanor Rigby" in the UK
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05 Aug 1966 Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title
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05 Aug 1966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
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06 Aug 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
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06 Aug 1966 Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Aug 1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
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06 Aug 1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
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07 Aug 1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
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10 Aug 1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
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10 Aug 1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
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11 Aug 1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins
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14 Aug 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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14 Aug 1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
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15 Aug 1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
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16 Aug 1966 Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
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17 Aug 1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
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17 Aug 1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
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19 Aug 1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
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20 Aug 1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
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22 Aug 1966 Beatles arrive in New York City
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23 Aug 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
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24 Aug 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
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26 Aug 1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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26 Aug 1966 KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Aug 1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
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27 Aug 1966 Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
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27 Aug 1966 Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
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27 Aug 1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
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28 Aug 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
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29 Aug 1966 Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco)
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29 Aug 1966 Dutch Internal Minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
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29 Aug 1966 The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
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31 Aug 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
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01 Sep 1966 KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Sep 1966 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
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03 Sep 1966 Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman"
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04 Sep 1966 Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
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04 Sep 1966 Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6)
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05 Sep 1966 WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Sep 1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
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06 Sep 1966 In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
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07 Sep 1966 KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Sep 1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
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08 Sep 1966 The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
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08 Sep 1966 The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
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09 Sep 1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
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09 Sep 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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10 Sep 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Sep 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
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11 Sep 1966 80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)
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11 Sep 1966 86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)
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11 Sep 1966 Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
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11 Sep 1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
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12 Sep 1966 "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
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12 Sep 1966 KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan begins teaching
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12 Sep 1966 WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1966 WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
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12 Sep 1966 "The Monkees," premier on NBC
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini XI launched for 71-hour flight
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13 Sep 1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as Premier of South Africa
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15 Sep 1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
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15 Sep 1966 Gemini XI (Conrad / Gordon) returns to Earth
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15 Sep 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
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15 Sep 1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth
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16 Sep 1966 The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
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16 Sep 1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
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17 Sep 1966 Cleveland pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
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18 Sep 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
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19 Sep 1966 Mike Burke named Yankees President
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20 Sep 1966 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II launched
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20 Sep 1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed September 23
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21 Sep 1966 5" of rain falls on New York City
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21 Sep 1966 Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi
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21 Sep 1966 5" of rain falls on NYC
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22 Sep 1966 KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Sep 1966 Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon
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22 Sep 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
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25 Sep 1966 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
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25 Sep 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
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26 Sep 1966 "Staten Island, " 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
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29 Sep 1966 Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana
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29 Sep 1966 Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
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29 Sep 1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
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30 Sep 1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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30 Sep 1966 The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
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01 Oct 1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
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01 Oct 1966 WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
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01 Oct 1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
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02 Oct 1966 LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
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02 Oct 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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03 Oct 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected President
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04 Oct 1966 Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
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04 Oct 1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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04 Oct 1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
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05 Oct 1966 Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
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06 Oct 1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
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09 Oct 1966 Baltimore Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
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09 Oct 1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery
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09 Oct 1966 Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It"
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09 Oct 1966 Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre
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09 Oct 1966 Vietnam War: Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre
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12 Oct 1966 Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell
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13 Oct 1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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14 Oct 1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
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14 Oct 1966 The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
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15 Oct 1966 LBJ signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT)
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15 Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
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16 Oct 1966 Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
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17 Oct 1966 A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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17 Oct 1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
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18 Oct 1966 "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
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19 Oct 1966 Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC)
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21 Oct 1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
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21 Oct 1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
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22 Oct 1966 The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
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22 Oct 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
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22 Oct 1966 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
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23 Oct 1966 Sandra Spuzich / Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
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25 Oct 1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
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26 Oct 1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
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26 Oct 1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
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27 Oct 1966 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
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28 Oct 1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
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29 Oct 1966 National Organization of Women founded
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30 Oct 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
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01 Nov 1966 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
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01 Nov 1966 NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
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01 Nov 1966 Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
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01 Nov 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
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02 Nov 1966 KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Nov 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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04 Nov 1966 Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
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04 Nov 1966 The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm.
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05 Nov 1966 Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
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06 Nov 1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
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06 Nov 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
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07 Nov 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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07 Nov 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
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08 Nov 1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
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08 Nov 1966 Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
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08 Nov 1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
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08 Nov 1966 President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
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09 Nov 1966 Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
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10 Nov 1966 Jack Lynch becomes Irish Premier
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10 Nov 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
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11 Nov 1966 Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
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11 Nov 1966 Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
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11 Nov 1966 Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
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12 Nov 1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
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12 Nov 1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
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12 Nov 1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
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14 Nov 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title
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15 Nov 1966 Gemini XII (Lovell / Aldrin) returns to Earth
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15 Nov 1966 Gemini XII returns to Earth
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16 Nov 1966 Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
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16 Nov 1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
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17 Nov 1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
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18 Nov 1966 Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow
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18 Nov 1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays
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19 Nov 1966 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
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20 Nov 1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
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20 Nov 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open
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20 Nov 1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
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20 Nov 1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
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21 Nov 1966 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
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22 Nov 1966 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
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23 Nov 1966 Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year
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24 Nov 1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
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24 Nov 1966 The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"
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24 Nov 1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
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25 Nov 1966 Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year
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25 Nov 1966 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)
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26 Nov 1966 "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
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26 Nov 1966 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
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26 Nov 1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
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27 Nov 1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41
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27 Nov 1966 Uruguay adopts constitution
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28 Nov 1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
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28 Nov 1966 Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
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28 Nov 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
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29 Nov 1966 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101
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30 Nov 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
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30 Nov 1966 Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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30 Nov 1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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30 Nov 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, MD to Boulder, CO
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01 Dec 1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
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01 Dec 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
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01 Dec 1966 The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
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02 Dec 1966 Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
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04 Dec 1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Dec 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
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05 Dec 1966 "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 561 performances
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06 Dec 1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
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08 Dec 1966 US and the USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
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08 Dec 1966 The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
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09 Dec 1966 Barbados joins the United Nations.
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10 Dec 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
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10 Dec 1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
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11 Dec 1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
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12 Dec 1966 US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
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13 Dec 1966 Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78
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13 Dec 1966 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
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13 Dec 1966 1st US bombing of Hanoi
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13 Dec 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 Dec 1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
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15 Dec 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
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15 Dec 1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of the New Orlean Saints
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16 Dec 1966 Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in the UK
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16 Dec 1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe, " in the UK
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18 Dec 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
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18 Dec 1966 Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
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20 Dec 1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
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20 Dec 1966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
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20 Dec 1966 Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
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21 Dec 1966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
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22 Dec 1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Dec 1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go, " last program
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24 Dec 1966 "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 performances
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24 Dec 1966 A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
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24 Dec 1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
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24 Dec 1966 USAF CL-44 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
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26 Dec 1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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26 Dec 1966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
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27 Dec 1966 "At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 performances
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27 Dec 1966 The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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28 Dec 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
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28 Dec 1966 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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29 Dec 1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Massachusetts)
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31 Dec 1966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
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31 Dec 1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
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31 Dec 1966 Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India vs West Indies Calcutta, 2-92
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31 Dec 1966 Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
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