1966 in Review

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Events

January

• First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco
• Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
• Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one into the sea
• Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
• About 8000 US soldiers land in South Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000
• Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India - sworn in January 24
• First SR-71 spy plane goes into service.

February

• West Germany has purchased 2600 political prisoners from East Germany
• The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon

• February 28 - US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, MO

March

• Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
• The Beatles: In an interview published in The Evening Standard, John Lennon comments, “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” eventually sparking a controversy in the United States.
• Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam
• March 11 - French president Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ’s must be closed within a year
• Gemini 8 docks with Agena target satellite
• Demonstrations again the Vietnam War in USA
• In South Vietnam, 20.000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government
• March 28 - Indira Gandhi visits Washington DC
• The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the moon

April

• Jan Berry of Jan & Dean suffers brain damage in a serious automobile accident in Beverly Hills, California
• Artificial heart installed to the chest of Marcel DeRudder in Houston hospital
• US troops in Vietnam total 250.000
• April 30 - regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued 2000 due to Channel Tunnel)

May

• Radio Peking claims that US planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan - US denies the story the next day
• South Vietnam army besieges Da Nang
• Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches
• In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Fidel Castro announces a martial law in Cuba because of possible US attack
• WE GRADUATED!!!

June

• Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to soft land on another world
• Gene Cernan completes second U.S. spacewalk (which lasted 2 hours, 7 minutes) on the Gemini 9 mission.
• James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi
• The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
• The Vatican announces the abolition of Index Librorum Prohibitum index of banned books
• Vietnam War: US planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong
• France formally leaves NATO

July

• North Vietnam declares general mobilization
• President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into law. The act goes into effect the following year.
• Conference of Warsaw Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam
• Israeli and Syrian jet fighters fight over the Jordan River
• In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory
• Gemini X lifts off for earth orbit with astronauts John Young and Michael Collins, setting a world altitude record of 474 miles.
• USA announces that U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba

August

• Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 from the University of Texas at Austin Main Building.
• Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march in Chicago
• Race riots occur in Lansing,Michigan.
• Jim Dickinson marries Barbara Nord and they are still going strong!!
• Lunar Orbiter 1, the first US spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched
• China begins Cultural Revolution
• Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
• Vietnam War: D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, at the Battle of Long Tan in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam
• Formation of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)

September

• United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he is not going to seek re-election because UN efforts in Vietnam have failed.
• In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by Dimitri Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting
• The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
• “The Man Trap”, the first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
• NATO decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium.
• In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang begins a 100-day hunger strike
• Metropolitan Opera house opened in New York City
• Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer released from Spandau Prison

October

• UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This even is now celebrated as World Teachers’ Day.
• Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October
• US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
• Negotiations about the Vietnam War begin in Manila, Philippines

November

• Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
• Gemini program: Gemini 12, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 600 km east of the Bahamas.
• US doctor Samuel Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murder of his pregnant wife in 1954

December

• The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach
• Walter Ulbricht talks about negotiations about German unification
• Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from Dulwich Art Gallery in London

Unknown Dates

• Cultural Revolution declared in mainland China.
• Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found Black Panther Party.
• Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rastafarian leaders
• Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of Soviet Union, becomes candidate member of the Central Committee.
• Surrealist Movement in the United States founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont.
• Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn are awarded the Fermi Prize.
• Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.
• Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of learning and memory, is first observed by Terje Lømo in Oslo, Norway.

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Births

            January 1 - Michael Imperioli, American actor

            January 4 - Deana Carter

            January 5 - Kate Schellenbach, Luscious Jackson

            January 8 - Andrew Wood, Mother Love Bone

            January 12 - Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer

            January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, American actor

            January 16 - Maxine Jones, En Vogue

            January 17 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer

            January 20 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist

            January 20 - Wes King, guitarist, singer

            February 1 - Michelle Akers, American soccer player

            February 2 - Robert DeLeo, Stone Temple Pilots

            February 6 - Rick Astley

            February 9 - Rachel Bolan, Skid Row

            February 11 - Stephen Gregory, American actor

            February 11 - Anthony Parker, American football player

            February 20 - Cindy Crawford, American model

            February 24 - Billy Zane, American actor

            March 2 - Howard Bernstein, producer

            March 3 - Tone-Loc, American musician

            March 3 - Tone-Loc

            March 4 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player

            March 5 - Tim Crutchfield,Controversial Politician

            March 10 - Edie Brickell, American singer

            March 12 - David Daniels, countertenor

            March 18 - Jerry Cantrell, Alice In Chains

            March 19 - Anja Rupel, singer

            March 23 - Marti Pellow, Wet Wet Wet

            March 25 - Tom Glavine, baseball player

            April 11 - Lisa Stansfield, singer

            April 13 - Marc Ford, The Black Crowes

            April 14 - Greg Maddux, baseball player

            April 18 - Ana Voog, singer-songwriter

            April 28 - John Daly, American golfer

            April 28 - Too $hort, rapper

            May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor

            May 13 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish)

            May 14 - Raphael Saadiq, singer-songwriter and record producer

            May 16 - Janet Jackson, American singer

            May 16 - Thurman Thomas, American football player

            May 16 - Janet Jackson

            May 26 - Tommy Stewart, Godsmack

            June 4 - Tiffany Million, American actress

            June 4 - Cecilia Bartoli

            June 8 - Julianna Margulies, American actress

            June 18 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater

            June 21 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist

            June 27 - J.J. Abrams, American television writer and producer

            June 28 - John Cusack, American actor

            June 30 - Mike Tyson, American boxer

            July 3 - Moises Alou, baseball player

            July 13 - Gerald Levert, American singer

            July 14 - Matthew Fox, American actor

            July 15 - Jason Bonham, drummer

            July 20 - Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam

            August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, composer

            August 14 - Halle Berry, American actress

            August 17 - William E. Dudley, American poet

            August 19 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician

            August 25 - Terminator X, DJ

            September 5 - Terry Ellis, En Vogue

            September 9 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian

            September 10 - Robin Goodridge, Bush

            September 20 - Nuno Bettancourt, Extreme

            September 24 - Michael J. Varhola, American author and publisher.

            October 2 - Mousse T., DJ

            October 8 - Teddy Riley, R&B musician

            October 15 - Eric Benét, gospel singer

            October 18 - Tim Cross, Sponge

            October 19 - Sinitta, US singer

            October 27 - Matt Drudge, American Internet journalist

            October 28 - Steve Atwater, American football player

            October 31 - King Ad-Rock, The Beastie Boys

            November 1 - Gary Howell, American actor

            November 6 - Peter DeLuise, American actor

            November 6 - Christian Lorenz, keyboard player

            November 12 - David Schwimmer, American actor

            November 14 - Curt Schilling, baseball player

            November 17 - Jeff Buckley, American singer (d. 1997)

            November 17 - Jeff Buckley

            November 20 - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer, and instrumentalist

            November 23 - Charlie Grover, Sponge

            November 24 - Joseph Run Simmons, Run D.M.C.

            November 25 - Stacy Lattisaw

            December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor

            December 8 - Sinéad O’Connor

            December 20 - Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

            December 29 - Dexter Holland of The Offspring

Deaths

            February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895)

            February 1 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)

            February 9 - Sophie Tucker

            February 10 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)

            February 20 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)

            March 3 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)

            June 1 - Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)

            June 19 - Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)

            July 6 - Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1892)

            July 18 - Bobby Fuller

            July 24 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)

            August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)

            August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913)

            September 6 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879)

            September 11 - C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (b. 1889)

            September 17 - Fritz Wunderlich, tenor

            September 28 - Lucius “Lucky” Millinder, US bandleader

            October 16 - George O’Hara, American actor (b. 1899)

            October 18 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)

            October 26 - Alma Cogan, English singer

            October 29 - Wellman Braud

            November 2 - Mississippi John Hurt, American singer and guitarist (b. 1893)

            November 28 - Vittorio Giannini, opera composer

            December 15 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (b. 1901)

            December - Carter Stanley, half of The Stanley Brothers

Nobel Prizes

            Physics - Alfred Kastler

            Chemistry - Robert S. Mulliken

            Medicine - Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins

            Literature - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs

            Peace - not awarded

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Television shows Debuts

            January 12 - Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).

            September 12 - The Monkees premieres (1966-1968)

            October 9 - Rocket Robin Hood premieres (1966-1969).

            Dark Shadows premieres (1966-1971).

            Family Affair premieres (1966-1971).

            Play School premieres (1966-present).

            Star Trek premieres (1966-1969).

            That Girl premieres (1966-1971).

            The Newlywed Game premieres (1966-1974).

            W5 premieres (1966-present).

            Wojeck premieres (1966-1968).

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Television shows

            Meet the Press (1947-present).

            Candid Camera (1948-present).

            The Ed Sullivan Show (1948-1971).

            Bozo the Clown (1949-present).

            Truth or Consequences (1950-1988).

            What’s My Line (1950-1967).

            Love of Life (1951-1980).

            Search for Tomorrow (1951-1986).

            Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present).

            American Bandstand (1952-1989).

            The Guiding Light (1952-present).

            The Honeymooners (1952-1970).

            The Today Show (1952-present).

            Face the Nation (1954-present).

            The Milton Berle Show (1954-1967).

            The Secret Storm (1954-1974).

            The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962-1992).

            Captain Kangaroo (1955-1984).

            Gunsmoke (1955-1975).

            The Lawrence Welk Show (1955-1982).

            As the World Turns (1956-present).

            The Edge of Night (1956-1984).

            Bonanza (1959-1973).

            Juke Box Jury (1959-1967, 1979, 1989-1990).

            The Bell Telephone Hour (1959-1968).

            My Three Sons (1960-1972).

            The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968).

            It’s Academic (1961-present)

            The Fulton Sheen Program (1961-1968).

            The Mike Douglas Show (1961-1981).

            Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (1961-1969).

            Match Game (1962-1969, 1973-1984, 1990-1991, 1998-1999).

            The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971).

            The Late Late Show (Ireland) (1962-present).

            The Lucy Show (1962-1968).

            The Saint (UK) (1962-1969).

            Doctor Who (UK) (1963-1989, 1996, 2005-present).

            General Hospital (1963-present).

            Petticoat Junction (1963-1970).

            The Doctors (1963-1982).

            Another World (1964-1999).

            Bewitched (1964-1972).

            Daniel Boone (1964-1970).

            Gilligan’s Island (1964-1967).

            Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964-1970).

            Jeopardy! (1964-1975, 1984-present).

            Peyton Place (1964-1969).

            Days of Our Lives (1965-present).

            Get Smart (1965-1970).

            Green Acres (1965-1971).

            Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971).

            I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970).

            Lost In Space (1965-1968).

            The Dean Martin Show (1965-1974).

            Tom and Jerry (1965-1972, 1975-1977, 1980-1982).

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Ending this year

            The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-1966).

            The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966).

            The Flintstones (1960-1966).

            Ben Casey (1961-1966).

            Mister Ed (1961-1966).

            The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966).

            Ready Steady Go (1963-1966).

            Shindig! (1964-1966).

            The Addams Family (1964-1966).

            The Munsters (1964-1966).

            This Hour Has Seven Days (1964-1966).

            Hullabaloo (1965-1966).   

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