1966 Jan 1, Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reached #1.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1966 Jan 1, A 12 day transit worker strike shut down NYC subway and buses.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1966 Jan 1, By law all US cigarette packs began carrying the warning: "Caution! Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health."
(www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1992/8/1992_8_72.shtml)
1966 Jan 1, The 173rd Airborne Brigade became the first American unit in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam.
(AH, 2/06, p.14)
1966 Jan 2, The 1st Jewish child was born in Spain since the 1492 expulsion.
(MC, 1/2/02)
1966 Jan 3, Cambodia warned the UN of retaliation unless the U.S. and South Vietnam end intrusions.
(HN, 1/3/99)
1966 Jan 4, A US State Dept. security official wrote a memo describing how a safe house was set up in the Guatemalan presidential palace for use by Guatemalan security agents and their US contacts.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1966 Jan 4, Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for California Governor.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1966 Jan 9, Ronald Reagan appeared on Meet the Press and was asked why he had not disavowed the John Birch Society. Reagan said a committee had looked into the group and found “nothing of a subversive nature.” In 1960 an informer reported to the FBI that Reagan was a Beverly Hills chapter member.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1966 Jan 10, Julian Bond was denied a seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1966 Jan 10, In Mississippi Vernon Dahmer, a revered civil rights leader, was killed in a firebombing. In 1998 Klansmen Sam Bowers (1924-2006), Deavours Nix (72) and Charles Noble (55) were arrested for the murder. 8 men in 2 cars loaded with shotguns and 12 gallons of gasoline attacked Dahmer’s home. Billy Roy Pitts participated and later testified how Bowers had called meetings and presided over the planning of the bombing. Bowers was convicted in his 5th trial and sentenced to life in prison where he died.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.A5)(SFC, 8/17/98, p.A5)(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 8/24/98, p.A1)
1966 Jan 10, The Tashkent Agreement, was signed in the Soviet city of Tashkent, and officially ended a 17-day war between Pakistan and India. It required that both sides withdraw by February 26, 1966, to positions held prior to August 5, 1965, and observe the cease-fire line agreed to on June 30, 1965. The agreement was brokered by Soviet premier Aleksey Kosygin and signed by Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistan President Ayub Khan. The Indian prime minister died the day after signing the agreement.
(HNQ, 4/26/99)(www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
1966 Jan 11, In Brazil 550 died in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1966 Jan 11, Albert Giacometti (64), Swiss-French painter and sculptor, died.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1966 Jan 11, India’s PM Lal Bahadur Shastri, the successor of Nehru and engineer of the Green Revolution, died.
(WSJ, 3/19/00, p.A19)
1966 Jan 12, "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premiered on ABC TV.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1966 Jan 12, President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
(AP, 1/12/98)
1966 Jan 12, A 12 day NYC transit strike ended.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1966 Jan 13, Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Johnson.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1966 Jan 17, Martin Luther King Jr. opened a campaign in Chicago.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1966 Jan 17, A US Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashed on the Spanish coast. Three of the bombs were quickly recovered, but the fourth wasn't found until April. Two US Air Force jets collided in the skies over Spanish coastal village of Palomares. The mid-air crash of the B-52 bomber and a KC-135 refueling plane killed 8 crew members.
(AP, 1/17/06)(www.commondreams.org/views01/0803-08.htm)
1966 Jan 18, Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997), the 1st African-American to hold a post in the presidential cabinet, was sworn in as head of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development under Pres. Johnson.
(MC, 1/18/02)
1966 Jan 19, Neil Simon's, Coleman's & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premiered.
(MC, 1/19/02)
1966 Jan 19, Indira Gandhi, Nehru’s daughter, was elected the 3rd prime minister of India.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(AP, 1/19/98)(MC, 1/19/02)
1966 Jan 20, The Merry Prankster organized the Trips Festival at the SF Longshoremen’s Hall. It became 3 days of drug-infused music and partying.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W28)
1966 Jan 29, "Sweet Charity" opened on Broadway for 608 performances. Cy Coleman composed the music.
(www.prigsbee.com/Musicals/shows/sweetcharity.htm)(SFC, 11/20/04, p.B6)
1966 Jan 29, A snow storm in north east US killed 165.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1966 Jan 31, U.S. planes resumed bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
(HN, 1/31/99)
1966 Jan 31, The Soviets launched Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land softly on the moon.
(HC, 2003, p.64)
1966 Feb 1, US pilot Dieter Dengler (1939-2001) was shot down in his A-1 Skyraider over Laos. He managed to organize 6 American and Thai prisoners and escaped his captors in July. In 2007 a German documentary by Werner Herzog, “Little Dieter Needs To Fly,” was expanded into a full film. In 2010 Bruce Henderson authored “Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War.”
(SFC, 7/30/10, p.F2)
1966 Feb 1, Nicholas Piantanida, set a balloon flight record & died during the descent.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1966 Feb 3, The Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.
(AP, 2/3/08)
1966 Feb 4, Gilbert H. Grosvenor (90), president National Geographic Society, died.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1966 Feb 8, In Malaysia the Tugu Negara (national monument) was completed and officially opened by the Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, the head of state. The sculpture was designed by Austria-born American sculptor Felix de Weldon (1907-2003). It was proclaimed a memorial park dedicated to the 11,000 people who died during the 12-year Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). Thereafter, a wreath-laying ceremony takes place at the monument every July 31 on Warriors Day.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugu_Negara)
1966 Feb 9, Sophie Tucker (79), Russian-US singer, actress (My Yiddish Mama), died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1966 Feb 10, Protester David Miller was convicted of burning his draft card.
(HN, 2/10/97)
1966 Feb 12, The South Vietnamese won two big battles in the Mekong Delta. In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Navy SEALs were the military's eyes and ears, providing vital intelligence on enemy operations.
(HN, 2/12/97)
1966 Feb 16, The World Council of Churches being held in Geneva, urged immediate peace in Vietnam. Vietnam was the war that five presidents "owned"--and yet no president "owned."
(HN, 2/16/98)
1966 Feb 17, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (b.1875) former president GM (1923-1956), died. As president of GM he brought in corporate management, introduced the ideas of model changes and offering a car "for every purse and purpose." In 2002 David Farber authored "Sloan Rules."
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1966 Feb 19, Robert F. Kennedy suggested the U.S. offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam.
(HN, 2/19/98)
1966 Feb 20, Chester W. Nimitz (80), US admiral (WW II), died at home on Yerba Buena Island (Treasure Island) in SF Bay.
(MC, 2/20/02)(Ind, 11/9/02, 5A)
1966 Feb 24, A military coup overthrew Ghana’s Pres. Kwame Nkrumah. He fled to Guinea.
(http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/19/150104.php)
1966 Feb, The US stock market began a 9 month decline of 25%.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)
1966 Feb, In Syria the Alawis took power and presented themselves as standard Muslims. Hafez Assad, a member of the Alawite clan, was rewarded for his role and appointment as Defense Minister. Nearly 80% of Syrians are Sunnis.
(WSJ, 1/9/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A30)
1966 Mar 1, Moscow reported that a space probe had crashed on Venus. Venera 3 became the 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus).
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1966 Mar 1, The Baath-party took power in Syria. Among the fighters who had a part in toppling Amin Hafez was Hafez Assad, who became president four years later and ruled Syria with an iron fist for three decades.
(SC, 3/1/02)(AP, 12/18/09)
1966 Mar 2, Milton Obote stage a coup against Pres. Edward Mutesa (d.1969) and had himself declared president of Uganda. Mutesa, the Baganda king and non-executive president of Uganda, was burned out of his palace and exiled. Mutesa fled Obote’s army and went to London where his son, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi was enrolled in boarding school.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Obote)(WSJ, 12/19/94, A-1,6)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.58)
1966 Mar 2, There were some 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam. Gen. Westmoreland called for 325,000 by July and 410,000 by December.
(SC, 3/2/02)(Econ, 7/11/09, p.88)
1966 Mar 3, James Goldman's "Lion in Winter" premiered in NYC.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1966 Mar 3, Rock group Buffalo Springfield formed with Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1966 Mar 3, "Lightnin' Lou" Christie was striking gold this day for his hit "Lightnin' Strikes". Christie was born Lugee Sacco and joined a group called The Classics before making his first recording in 1960. In 1961, he recorded under the name Lugee & The Lions until changing to Lou Christie for a string of hits beginning in 1963. Other notable tunes from Christie's Top 40 appearances include: "The Gypsy Cried", "Two Faces Have I", "Rhapsody in the Rain" and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" – all displaying his trademark falsetto voice, similar to that of Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons. "Lightnin' Strikes" was Christie's only million seller.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1966 Mar 3, An F5 tornado hit Jackson, Miss. 57 people were killed and nearly 1000 homes destroyed. Damages were estimated at $18 million.
(SFC, 3/3/09, p.D6)
1966 Mar 4, John Lennon said: "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus." Radio stations in the Netherlands and in Spain quickly banned the playing of Beatle records as did the South African Broadcasting Corporation, stating that "The Beatles' arrogance has passed the ultimate limit of decency. It is clowning no longer."
(www.beatles.ws/1966.htm)
1966 Mar 4, North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1966 Mar 4, Canadian Pacific airliner exploded on landing in Tokyo and 64 died.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1966 Mar 5, 75 MPH air currents caused a BOAC 707 to crash into Mount Fuji and 124 died.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1966 Mar 5, Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet, died in Leningrad. She was born in 1889 as Anna Gorenko near Odessa, Ukraine. In 2005 Elaine Feinstein authored “Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova.
(www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Anna_Akhmatova)(SSFC, 4/2/06, p.M3)
1966 Mar 6, In Guatemala security forces arrested 32 people suspected of aiding Marxist guerrillas. They all disappeared. A later CIA cable identified 3 of the missing as terrorists executed by Guatemalan authorities on Mar 6.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1966 Mar 7, Charles de Gaulle said he would pull France out of NATO's integrated military command. French military personnel stepped down from their positions in NATO on July 1.
(www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=181)
1966 Mar 8, "Golden Boy" closed at Majestic Theater in NYC after 569 performances.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1966 Mar 8, Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1966 Mar 8, An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson Column in Dublin.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1966 Mar 10, The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1966 Mar 10, Kelso, 5 time Horse of the Year, retired.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1966 Mar 11, Three men were convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, In Indonesia army generals held guns to the head of Pres. Sukarno and forced him to sign a document transferring power to Gen. Suharto.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
1966 Mar 15, Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, died.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1966 Mar 16, Col. Paul Underwood flew a bombing mission over Lai Chau Province in Vietnam and crashed after releasing bombs from his F-105 Thunderchief. His remains were returned to the US in 1998.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A14)
1966 Mar 16, Alfred Rascon, a US Army medic in South Vietnam, saved the lives of a number of his platoon members using his own wounded body to cover wounded men while treating their wounds under fire. He received the Medal of Honor in 2000.
(SFC, 2/9/00, p.A2)
1966 Mar 16-1966 Mar 17, US astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott performed the first orbital docking.
(NPub, 2002, p.20)
1966 Mar 17, A U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.
(AP, 3/17/97)(HN, 3/17/98)
1966 Mar 18, Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (1890-1966), died. "Having only friends would be dull anyway -- like eating eggs without salt."
(AP, 3/18/97)
1966 Mar 19, Texas Western College under coach Don Haskins won the NCAA basketball tournament becoming the 1st team to win with an all African American team. In 2006 the film “Glory Road” depicted the story of the winning team.
(SFC, 1/24/06, p.B1)
1966 Mar 21, Supreme Court reversed Massachusetts ruling that Fanny Hill" is obscene.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1966 Mar 23, The 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1966 Mar 24, Selective Service announced college deferments based on performance.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1966 Mar 27, Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations took place in US, Europe and Australia.
(MC, 3/27/02)
1966 Mar 28, Navy corpsman Robert R. Ingram was shot while with his platoon of marines on a ridge in Quang Ngai province, South Vietnam. He continued providing medical attention to his comrades with multiple wounds to himself. He was awarded a belated Medal of Honor in 1998 due to lost paperwork.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A3)
1966 Mar 29, Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1966 Mar 31, An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators marched in New York City. 25,000 anti war demonstrators marched in NYC.
(HN, 3/31/98)(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A28)(MC, 3/31/02)
1966 Mar 31, Labour Party won British parliamentary election.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1966 Apr 2, Cecil Scott Forester (66), English author (Horatio Hornblower), died.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1966 Apr 3, Three-thousand South Vietnamese Army troops led a protest against the Ky regime in Saigon.
(HN, 4/3/98)
1966 Apr 6, Emmett Ashford became the first African-American major league umpire. The highly regarded umpire was known for his dynamic and distinctive style of calling balls and strikes.
(HN, 4/12/99)(HNQ, 4/15/00)(http://netscape.net/picassoaustin/homepage)
1966 Apr 7, The United States recovered the hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.
(AP, 4/7/97)
1966 Apr 8, The AFL chose 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1966 Apr 8, The cover of Time magazine asked “Is God Dead?” An article inside examined the changing view of the Judeo-Christian god.
(SFC, 7/31/08, p.B5)(www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19660408,00.html)
1966 Apr 8, Leonid Brezhnev was elected secretary-general of communist party. [see Mar 29]
(MC, 4/8/02)
1966 Apr 9, The statue of Winston Churchill was dedicated at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.
(HN, 4/9/99)
1966 Apr 10, Evelyn Waugh (b.1903), British writer, satirist (Brideshead Revisited), died. He also wrote “The Loved Ones,” a satire on California burial customs and “Vile Bodies.” His correspondence with Nancy Mitford, novelist of manners, was edited by Charlotte Mosley and published in 1997. In 2007 Alexander Waugh, grandson of Evelyn Waugh, authored “Fathers and Sons,” his biography of the Waugh family.
(WSJ, 4/29/97, p.A18)(SFC, 9/11/04, p.E1)(WSJ, 5/26/07, p.P6)
1966 Apr 12, Emmett Ashford became the first African-American major league umpire. [see Apr 6]
(HN, 4/12/99)
1966 Apr 12, Jan Berry (1942-2004) of the "Jan and Dean" duo was involved in a car crash that left him in a month-long coma. Their hit songs from 1960-1966 included: "Little Old lady from Pasadena," "Deadman’s Curve," and "Surf City."
(SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.63)(SSFC, 3/28/04, p.B5)
1966 Apr 12, 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam took place.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1966 Apr 13, Pan Am placed a $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s. The 747 jumbo jet revolutionized mass air transportation.
(MC, 4/13/02)(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
1966 Apr 16, Rhodesian PM Ian Smith broke diplomatic relations with Britain.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1966 Apr 19, Lt. Lee Aaron Adams of Willits, Ca., was killed when his F-105D Thunderchief fighter plane was shot down in North Vietnam. His remains were returned home in 2005. During 1966 the US Air Force lost 126 Thunderchiefs.
(SFC, 6/2/05, p.A1)
1966 Apr 21, Pfc. Milton Lee Oliver was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for bravery during the Vietnam War.
(HN, 4/21/00)
1966 Apr 21, Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visited Kingston, Jamaica.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1966 Apr 23, President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for "more flags" (foreign countries) to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
(HN, 4/23/00)
1966 Apr, The Grateful Dead returned to Northern California from Los Angeles. They established a ranch in Novato and moved into a Victorian at 710 Haight St.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W28)
1966 Apr, Mary Wells Lawrence founded the ad agency Wells Rich Greene. In 2002 she authored “A Big Life (In Advertising).”
(WSJ, 5/17/02, p.W10)
1966 Apr, US Rubber changed its name to Uniroyal Inc.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, R45)
1966 Apr, Robert G. Ferry (1934-2009, helicopter test pilot, flew solo 2,213 miles nonstop from Culver City, Ca., to Ormond Beach, Fl., in 15 hours and 8 minutes setting a world record.
(SFC, 2/11/09, p.B7)
1966 Apr, The first issue of American History Illustrated was published by founder Robert Fowler (d.2003 at 76). The magazine was later renamed American History.
(AH, 2/03, p.2)
1966 May 1, Last British concert by Beatles was at Empire Pool in Wembley.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1966 May 13, Rolling Stones released "Paint it Black."
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1966 May 13, Federal education funding was denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
(MC, 5/13/02)
1966 May 14, Stokely Carmichael was elected chairman of SNCC. Civil rights leader and one-time chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Stokely Carmichael is credited with popularizing the slogan "Black Power" during a march led by James Meridith. The "Black Power" slogan was endorsed by the Congress of Racial Equality but rejected by the NAACP Convention in 1966.
(HNQ, 5/30/98)
1966 May 14, Ludwig Meidner (b.1884), German expressionist artist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Meidner)
1966 May 15, South Vietnamese army battled Buddhists and about 80 died.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1966 May 16, Columbia Records released Bob Dylan’s album "Blonde on Blonde."
(www.ddg.com/LIS/glenn/DYLANWEB.HTM)
1966 May 16, Stokely Carmichael was named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1966 May 16, Mao exploited his cult status as Communist China's "red, red sun" and urged young Chinese to revolt against traditional culture and leaders. The country descended into the ideological frenzy of the Cultural Revolution. Teenagers armed with red booklets of Mao's speeches battled one another and dispatched millions to the countryside. Many "capitalist roaders" were hounded to death. The Cultural Revolution was a radical upheaval of Chinese society initiated by Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Mao, fearing his influence fading, chose to promote the movement, which amounted to anarchy and terror erupting in China’s urban centers. In doing so, he circumvented his designated successors with individuals committed to his vision, including the Gang of Four.
(WSJ 12/10/93)(HNQ, 6/6/01)(Econ, 5/20/06, p.43)
1966 May 18, Paul Althaus (78), German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1966 May 19, A tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt. Cook in 1773), died.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1966 May 21, The new $114 million Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford Univ., Ca., began smashing atoms.
(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A5)(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B7)
1966 May 24, The Broadway musical "Mame" opened with Angel Lansbury and Bea Arthur at Winter Garden Theater in NYC for 1508 performances. It was directed by Gene Saks and was based on the novel "Auntie Mame" by Patrick Dennis.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)(SSFC, 12/24/00, Par p.10)(SSFC, 4/26/09, p.B6)
1966 May 25, Peru and Argentina soccer fans fought in Lima and 248 died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1966 May 26, A Buddhist monk set himself on fire at US consulate in Hu, South-Vietnam.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1966 May 27, 6 French fighters crashed above Spain.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1966 May, The US launched 2 sorties of U-2 spy planes off the USS Ranger to monitor the French nuclear test site at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. These were the only aircraft-carrier-based launches of the U-2 spy planes. The information was made public in 2006.
(AP, 3/21/06)
1966 Jun 1, George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1966 Jun 1, 2,400 persons attended the White House Conference on Civil Rights.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1966 Jun 2, The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon in Oceanus Procellarum and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
(AP, 6/2/97)(SC, 6/2/02)
1966 Jun 6, Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford were wed.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1966 Jun 6, NFL & AFL announced their merger.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1966 Jun 6, Stokely Carmichael launched the "Black Power" movement.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1966 Jun 6, Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked solo along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
(AP, 6//97)(HN, 6/6/98)
1966 Jun 8, A merger was announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970.
(AP, 6/8/06)
1966 Jun 8, Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempted to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but was unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
(HN, 6/8/99)
1966 Jun 8, A tornado hit Topeka, Kansas, killing 16 people and destroying 820 homes.
(SFC, 6/8/09, p.D8)
1966 Jun 10, Mamas & Papas won a gold record for "Monday, Monday."
(MC, 6/10/02)
1966 Jun 11, The musical "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" closed at the Mark Hellinger in NYC after 280 performances. It had opened on October 17, 1965.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3255)
1966 Jun 11, Wallace Ford (68), actor (The Deputy), died.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1966 Jun 12, Hermann Scherchen (74), German conductor, music publisher, died.
(MC, 6/12/02)
1966 Jun 13, The Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police. The conviction of Ernesto Miranda for rape and kidnapping was overturned because his confession was not voluntarily given.
(AP, 6/13/97)(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A26)
1966 Jun 16, "Rowan & Martin Show," debuted on NBC-TV.
(MC, 6/16/02)
1966 Jun 16, In the 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha won.
(MC, 6/16/02)
1966 Jun 18, Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.
(HN, 6/18/98)
1966 Jun 19, French archeologist Pierre Montet (b.1885), renowned for his excavations at Tanis, Egypt, died in Paris. In 1958 he published an account of his discoveries titled “La Necropole Royale de Tanis.”
(Arch, 5/05, p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Montet)
1966 Jun 22, The film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened.
(MC, 6/22/02)
1966 Jun 23, Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.
(HN, 6/23/98)
1966 Jun 24, The period of relative peace following WW II exceeded that following WW I.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1966 Jun 24, A Bombay to NY Air India flight crashed into Mont Blanc (Switz) and 117 died.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1966 Jun 27, The 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiered.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1966 Jun 29, The U.S. Air Force bombed fuel storage facilities near Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam. Republic Aircraft's F-105 Thunderchief, better known as the 'Thud,' was the Air Force's warhorse in Vietnam.
(HN, 6/29/98)(AP, 6/29/97)
1966 Jun 30, Betty Friedan (1921-2006) and 27 other women and men founded the National Organization for Woman and served as its 1st president (1966-1970). Catherine S. East (1916-1996) persuaded Betty Friedan to found NOW.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A18)(Econ, 2/11/06, p.82)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan)
1966 Jun, Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Univ. of Nevada began teaching sign language to a 10-month-old female chimpanzee named Washoe (d.2007).
(www.friendsofwashoe.org/timeline_project_begins.shtml)(SFC, 11/1/07, p.A2)
1966 Jun, In China radicals hounded Peng Zhen from office as mayor of Beijing under charges that he had transformed Beijing into a personal empire in opposition to Mao’s policies.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B8)
1966 Jul 1, The US Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
(AP, 7/1/97)
1966 Jul 1, The U.S. Marines launched Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/1/98)
1966 Jul 4, President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year.
(AP, 7/4/97)
1966 Jul 4, Beatles were attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos.
(Maggio)
1966 Jul 5, National Guard was mobilized in Omaha after a 3rd night of rioting.
(MC, 7/5/02)
1966 Jul 7, The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/7/98)
1966 Jul 8, A US airline strike began and lasted until Aug 19th.
(MC, 7/8/02)
1966 Jul 11, Debbie Dunning (actress: Home Improvement), was born.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 11, "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaked at #3.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 12, There were race riots in Chicago.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1966 Jul 12, D.T. Suzuki (96), Zen Buddhism scholar, died in Tokyo, Japan.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1966 Jul 14, In Chicago Richard Speck murdered 8 student nurses in a Chicago dormitory. He made a videotape in prison and admitted to the killings. Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Paison; all nursing students at the South Chicago Community Hospital; were raped then strangled or stabbed to death by Richard Speck. One survivor, Cora Amurao, identified Richard Speck, and he was put in jail. He was serving consecutive sentences of 50 to 150 years and died of a heart attack in 1991 at age 49. The video shows him having sex and snorting cocaine in prison.
(USA Today, 5/14/96, p.3A)(TMC, 1994, p.1966) (AP, 7/14/97)(MC, 7/14/02)
1966 Jul 16, "Half a Sixpence" closed at Broadhurst Theater in NYC after 512 performances.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1966 Jul 17, Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam to defend against American airstrikes.
(HN, 7/17/98)
1966 Jul 19, Gov. James Rhodes declared a state of emergency in Cleveland due to a race riot.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1966 Jul 21, Gemini X returned to Earth.
(OGA, 11/24/98)
1966 Jul 22, B-52 bombers hit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1966 Jul 23, [Edward] Montgomery Clift (45), actor (From Here to Eternity), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1966 Jul 24, Oakland-born golfer Tony Lema (32), while flying with his wife Betty to an exhibition match in Chicago, Illinois, crashed on the seventh hole of a golf course in Lansing, Illinois, after their chartered twin-engine Beechcraft Bonanza ran out of fuel. All four people on board were killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Lema)
1966 Jul 25, Supremes released "You Can't Hurry Love."
(SC, 7/25/02)
1966 Jul 25, Yankee manager Casey Stengel was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1966 Jul 29, Bob Dylan was hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, NY.
(www.wilburys.info/insbob.html)
1966 Jul 29, Edward Gordon Craig (b.1872), the son of English actress Ellen Terry, died. He had authored the controversial manifesto “On the Art of the Theater” (1911) and envisioned that the future of theater lay in lights, sounds, shadows and screens.
(Econ, 8/30/08, p.80)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gordon_Craig)
1966 Jul 30, US airplanes bombed the demilitarized zone in Vietnam.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1966 Jul 31, Alabamans burned Beatle products due to John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1966 Aug 1, Charles Joseph Whitman (25), architectural engineering student and ex-Marine, shot and killed 14 people at the University of Texas before he was gunned down by police. His mother and wife were the first victims before he climbed to the tower at the Univ. of Texas in Austen and shot 14 people dead and wounded 31. One shooting victim died of complications in 2001 bringing the death toll to 17. The 1997 film "The Delicate Art of the Rifle" by the Cambrai Liberation Collective of North Carolina was a reimaging of the attack at the Austin Campus.
(AP, 8/1/97)(SFC,11/19/97, p.A3)(SFC, 4/17/07, p.A8)
1966 Aug 3, Lenny Bruce (b.1925), stand up comic, died at his home in Hollywood, Ca., from a morphine overdose.
(WSJ, 5/29/03, p.D8)(www.fadetoblack.com/foi/lennybruce/bio.htm)
1966 Aug 5, Martin Luther King Jr. was stoned during a march in Chicago.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1966 Aug 5, Beatles released their "Revolver" album in US.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1966 Aug 5, Beatles released "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1966 Aug 6, Demonstrations against war in Vietnam become widespread throughout US.
(MC, 8/6/02)
1966 Aug 7, The United States lost seven planes over North Vietnam, the most in the war up to this point.
(HN, 8/7/98)
1966 Aug 7, There was a race riot in Lansing, Michigan.
(MC, 8/7/02)
1966 Aug 8, South African Broadcasting banned the Beatles for Lennon's anti-Jesus remark.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1966 Aug 11, Wilkes Bashford (33), men’s clothing retailer, opened his own shop in SF. In 2009 he filed for bankruptcy and sold his operations to Mitchells/Richards/Marshs, an East Coast company.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.D1)(SFC, 11/11/09, p.A12)
1966 Aug 17, Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1966 Aug 18, Australians bloodily repulsed a Viet Cong attack at Long Tan, South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/18/98)
1966 Aug 19, An earthquake struck Varko, Turkey, and some 2,400 were killed.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1966 Aug 20, The Beatles were pelted with rotten fruit during a Memphis concert.
(MC, 8/20/02)
1966 Aug 22, The Beatles arrived in NYC.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1966 Aug 27, There was a race riot in Waukegan, Illinois.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1966 Aug 27, Sir Francis Chichester began 1st solo ocean voyage around the world.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1966 Aug 29, The Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1966 Aug 29, In Egypt Sayed Qutb (b.1906), intellectual godfather of radical Islam, was hanged for treason under Pres. Nasser. Qutb had earlier written: "A Muslim has no nationality except his belief." He denounced western hedonism and the decadence of Muslim regimes. Qutb had spent some time in the US (1948-1951) and authored the 1951 essay “The America I Have Seen.” While in prison Qutb authored “Milestones,” to chart the course of his crushed movement. His brother Muhammad went into exile in Saudi Arabia where he taught at King Abdul Aziz Univ. Osama bin Laden was one of his students. In 2010 John Calvert authored “Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism.”
(WSJ, 3/22/04, p.A18)(Econ, 2/4/06, p.24)(Sm, 2/06, p.100)(Econ, 7/17/10, p.86)
1966 Aug 31, In China a response to Mao’s call for a Cultural Revolution led to a massacre in Hongsheng, one of 13 communes in Beijing’s Daxing district, that left 110 people dead. The official death toll for all 13 communes was put at 324. Over 2 weeks some 2,000 Beijing residents were killed.
(Econ, 5/20/06, p.43)
1966 Aug, John McCone, former CIA director, joined Ronald Reagan’s campaign as head of an executive policy advice committee.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1966 Aug, The commander of 5th Special Forces established an ad hoc Mobile Force that he carved out of his resources. Initially the element was called Task Force 777, later renamed Blackjack 21. The "2" was for the II Corps area that included the Central Highlands, home to several Montagnard tribes. The "1" meant it was the first of its kind in II Corps--and in Vietnam. The formal mission statement was: “To infiltrate into the area of operations and conduct border surveillance, interdict infiltration routes, and conduct guerrilla-type operations against known VC installations. Infiltration, reconnaissance, operations, and exfiltration will be executed clandestinely.”
(HNQ, 10/16/02)
1966 Sep 1, The 1st annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, led by Jerry Lewis, was held.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.E5)
1966 Sep 3, The 24th World Sci-Fi Convention honored Gene Roddenberry.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1966 Sep 4, US pilot Ron Bliss was shot down over North Vietnam and spent 6 1/2 years in prison at the "Hanoi Hilton." His story was later part of the 1998 documentary "Return With Honor."
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.50)
1966 Sep 6, A race riot took place in the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta, Ga., from Sep 6-11. Blacks rioted after a suspected car thief is shot escaping a white cop and 138 people were arrested with 35 injured. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC's) Stokely Carmichael is indicted for inciting a riot, and Julian Bond resigns from SNCC.
(www.theprimeone.com/archives/000113.html)
1966 Sep 6, Margaret Higgins Sanger (b.1883), birth control advocate and founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, died.
(HNQ, 6/22/98)
1966 Sep 6, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town. Demitrios Tsafendas was reported to have been insane with the belief that a tapeworm inside his head instructed him to do the killing. In 2001 Henk Van Woerden authored ”The Assassin: A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid.”
(AP, 9/6/97)(SSFC, 7/8/01, DB p.63)
1966 Sep 8, The television series “Star Trek” premiered on NBC with the episode "The Man Trap". Nichelle Nichols starred as Lt. Uhura.
(SFC, 8/5/96, p.A13)(SFC, 6/12/99, p.A23)(AP, 9/8/01)
1966 Sep 8, The situation comedy "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premiered on ABC-TV.
(AP, 9/8/06)
1966 Sep 10, The Beatles' "Revolver," album went #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1966 Sep 12, "The Monkees" debuted on NBC TV. "Hey, hey we're the Monkees- and we don't monkey around." The show ran to 1868 and won an Emmy.
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)(AP, 9/12/01)
1966 Sep 12, The situation comedy Family Affair'' premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/12/06)
1966 Sep 12, The Beatles received a gold record for "Yellow Submarine."
(MC, 9/12/01)
1966 Sep 14, Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops in South Vietnam, became a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1966 Sep 14, Tillie Edelstein (b.1898), actress and screenwriter, died. As Gertrude Berg, she created “The Goldbergs” (1929), a radio program that later became first television sitcom. In 2009 Aviva Kempner directed a documentary of Berg titled “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Berg)(SFC, 8/7/09, p.E5)
1966 Sep 16, The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
(AP, 9/16/97)
1966 Sep 17, “Mission Impossible” premiered on CBS. Greg Morris (1934-1996) played Barney Collier, the technical wizard. Its theme music was written by Lalo Schifrin. The series ran until 1973.
(SFC, 8/28/96, C2)(SI-WPC, 12/6/96)(AP, 9/17/01)
1966 Sep 17, Fritz Wunderlich, charismatic German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), died at 35 from falling down stairs, two months short of his Met Opera debut.
(MC, 9/17/01)
1966 Sep 18, Gemini XI, a 3-day mission, was launched with Charles Conrad in command.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A6)
1966 Sep 20, Allen Cohen (1940-2004), published the 1st edition of the SF Oracle underground newspaper. The San Francisco Oracle featured visionary art by such renown artists as: Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, David Singer, Stanley Mouse, alongside writing firmly steeped in the past with such Beat era writers as: Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Cohen was arrested earlier in 1966 for selling a collection of erotic poetry called "The Love Book" by Lenore Kandel. Cohen was convicted and fined $50. The SF Oracle folded in 1968 following the publication of issue #12.
(SFC, 5/1/04, p.B7)(www.sfheart.com/cohen_bio.html)
1966 Sep 21, Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his name to Jimi.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1966 Sep 22, Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1966 Sep 25, Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premiered in Moscow.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1966 Sep 30, The Republic of Botswana, a Texas sized country, declared its independence from Britain. Seretse Khama (1921-1980) began serving as the 1st president of Botswana.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 9/30/06)(http://ubh.tripod.com/bw/skhama.htm)
1966 Sep 30, Nazi war criminals Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences. In 2002 Joachim Fest authored the biography: "Speer: The final Verdict."
(www.weymouthhistoricalsociety.org/September.htm)(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.M3)
1966 Sep, In SF the Jefferson Airplane played the band’s last show at the Matrix, the first night that Grace Slick sang with the band.
(SFC, 11/17/08, p.E4)
1966 Oct 5, A sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit, Mich. Radiation was contained.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1966 Oct 6, Hanoi insisted the United States must end its bombing in Vietnam before peace talks could begin.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1966 Oct 10, U.S. Forces launched Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages.
(HN, 10/10/98)
1966 Oct 13, 173 US airplanes bombed North-Vietnam.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1966 Oct 14, 175 US airplanes bombed North Vietnam.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1966 Oct 14, The World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) came into force. It was established under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Settlement_of_Investment_Disputes)
1966 Oct 15, President Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1966 Oct 15, US Congress passed the Endangered Species Preservation Act. It was expanded in 1973 as the Endangered Species Act. The Devils Hole Pupfish of Death Valley were among the first species protected. By 1972 only 124 remained. By 2007 only 42 were left.
(www.fws.gov/endangered/1966listing.html)
1966 Oct 15, The Black Panthers wrote their Ten Point Program at the Office of Economic Development Corp. in Oakland, Ca. It called for adequate housing, jobs, education and an end to police brutality. The Black Panther Party was founded by Merritt College students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. In 2006 Flores A. Forbes authored “Will You Die With Me: My Life and the Black Panther Party.”
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W31)(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.M1)
1966 Oct 16, Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft protestors were arrested in Oakland.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1966 Oct 17, Wieland Wagner, German opera director and grandson of Richard Wagner, died.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1966 Oct 18, "Apple Tree" opened at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1966 Oct 19, Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, died. In 2004 Lindy Woodhead authored “War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their times, Their Rivalry.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Arden)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.G1)
1966 Oct 21, More than 140 people, mostly children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses in Aberfan, Wales.
(AP, 10/21/08)
1966 Oct 22, The Soviet Union launched Luna 12 for orbit around the moon.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1966 Oct 26, US aircraft carrier Oriskany caught fire at Gulf on Tonkin and 43 died.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1966 Oct 27, The UN deprived South Africa of Namibia.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1966 Oct 29, The National Organization for Women was formally organized during a conference in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 10/29/07)
1966 Oct 30, The Zodiac killer murdered a female college student in Riverside. In 1985 Robert Graysmith authored "Zodiac" in which he identified the killer with the pseudonym of "Robert Starr," and later identified him as Arthur Leigh Allen (d.1992), a convicted child molester from Vallejo. Graysmith authored "Zodiac Unmasked" in 2002. In 2009 Deborah Perez (47) asserted that her father, Santa Ana resident Guy Ward Hendrickson (d.1983), was the Zodiac killer and that she had accompanied him on some of the killings.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.M6)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A9)
1966 Oct, The song “96 Tears” by the Mysterians Chicano band of Michigan hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, DB p.36)
1966 Oct, LSD was made illegal.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W28)
1966 Nov 4, In Florence, Italy the River Arno overflowed and damaged the Uffizi Gallery. Whole libraries of valuable ancient documents were soaked. 33 people died in the flood and blame fell principally on Enel, Italy’s largest power company. In 2008 Robert Clark authored “Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces.”
(WSJ, 10/29/96, p.A21)(SFC, 4/6/01, p.D4)(Econ, 11/1/08, p.97)
1966 Nov 4, A devastating flood swamped Venice, damaged monuments and covered the city in mud. 5,000 people were made homeless.
(SFC, 12/11/98, p.D4)(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.AW9)
1966 Nov 7, Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1966 Nov 8, Pres. Johnson signed anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1966 Nov 8, Ronald Reagan defeated Pat Brown by over a million votes to become governor of California. Reagan had defeated former SF Mayor George Christopher in the primary.
(AP, 11/8/97)(SFEC, 11/28/99, p.A28)(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A19)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1966 Nov 8, Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts was the first African-American elected to the Senate by popular vote in 85 years.
(AP, 11/8/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1966 Nov 11, Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church united as United Methodist Church.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1966 Nov 11, Gemini 12 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
(AP, 11/11/97)(HN, 11/11/98)
1966 Nov 15, The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Junior splashed down safely in the Atlantic.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1966 Nov 16, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, after 9 years in jail, was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
(AP, 11/1697)(MC, 11/16/01)
1966 Nov 17, The Leonid meteor shower peaked at 150,000+ per hour.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1966 Nov 18, US Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent.
(AP, 11/18/08)
1966 Nov 18, Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, died.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1966 Nov 19, Undefeated Notre Dame played undefeated Michigan State in a football game billed as the “Game of the Century.”
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.E8)
1966 Nov 20, "Cabaret" opened at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, for 1166 performances.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1966 Nov 20, Men in Zurich voted against female suffrage.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1966 Nov 24, The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper."
(MC, 11/24/01)
1966 Nov 28, Several gold records were certified this day. The Righteous Brothers get one for their album "Soul and Inspiration." The Monkees earn their third gold record for "I'm a Believer," which will be Number One for seven weeks. And a gold record goes to the New Vaudeville band for their '20s Rudy Vallee-style novelty song, "Winchester Cathedral."
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1966 Nov 28, US LP release: "The Beatles Girls," instrumental LP by George Martin.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1966 Nov 28, Dominican Republic adopts constitution.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1966 Nov 30, The former British colony of Barbados became independent.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 11/30/97)
1966 Dec 1, Carter Stanley, of the Stanley Brothers bluegrass duo, died of cancer.
(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.A16)
1966 Dec 5, Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory headed for Hanoi, North Vietnam despite federal warnings against it.
(HN, 12/5/98)
1966 Dec 13, The 1st US bombing of Hanoi, North Vietnam, took place.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1966 Dec 15, Walt Disney (b.1901), movie producer, actor and director, died in Los Angeles. In 1998 a CD-ROM was produced titled: “Walt Disney: An Intimate History of the Man and His magic.” In 2006 Neal Gabler authored “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.”
(AP, 12/15/97)(SFC, 11/4/98, p.E1)(WSJ, 11/3/06, p.W6)
1966 Dec 18, Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" aired for 1st time on CBS.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1966 Dec 19, Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier (Olympic-gold-1988, 92), was born.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1966 Dec 21, USSR launched Luna 13. It soft-landed on the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1966 Dec 22, The United States announced the allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight the famine in India.
(HN, 12/22/98)
1966 Dec 24, Soviet research station Luna 13 soft-landed on the moon.
(HN, 12/24/98)(MC, 12/24/01)
1966 Dec 26, Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, chairman of black studies at Long Beach CSU, celebrated the first Kwanzaa, a seven day African American celebration of family and heritage. Dr. Karenga established Kwanzaa (“first fruits of the season” in Swahili), the African American celebration of unity and community values over the Christmas to New Year season. The 7 principles of Kwanzaa include: Umoja - Unity; Kujichagulia - Self-determination; Ujima - Collective work and responsibility; Ujamaa - Cooperative economics; Nia - Purpose; Kuumba - Creativity; and Imani - Faith. The holiday runs for 7 days from Dec 26 to Jan 1.
(SFC, 12/27/96, p.C17)(SFC,12/26/97, p.A30)(HN, 12/26/98)
1966 Dec 30, Trygve Halvdan Lie (72), 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), died.
(MC, 12/30/01)
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