1966 (MCMLXVI ) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
Events
January
January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic .
January 2 - Strike of public transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13
January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore , San Francisco
January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso ).
January 4 - Prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow
January 4 - Fire due to a gas leak in Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon , France - 18 dead, 84 injured
January 10 - Pakistan i-India n peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
January 10 - French paper L'Express publishes a story of Georges Figon , who took part of the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka . January 18 French police announces that Figon has committed suicide just before he was about to be arrested
January 11 - Conference about the situation in Rhodesia begins in Lagos
January 11 - Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies
January 12 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
January 13 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development .
January 15 - A violent military coup in Nigeria
January 15 - Moscow announces Sergei Korolev 's death
January 17 - The Nigerian coup is overturned
January 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain , dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bomb s near the town of Palomares and one into the sea
January 17 - Carl Brashear , the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
January 18 - About 8000 US soldiers land in South Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000
January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India - sworn in January 24
January 19 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies resigns
January 20 - Demonstrations against high food prices in Hungary
January 21 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party
January 22 - Military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa has been killed during the coup
January 22 - The Chad ian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan , starting the Chadian Civil War
January 26 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires
January 26 - Beaumont children disappearance - Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg Beach , South Australia , and have never been seen again
January 27 - British government promises USA that British troops in Malaysia stay until more peaceful conditions in the region
January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City .
January 31 - United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia
January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
February
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