1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).

Events

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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 - Pakistani-Indian 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 bombs 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 Chadian 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

• February 1 - West Germany procures some 2600 political prisoners from East Germany
• February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon
• February 4 - Japanese passenger jet crashes into Tokyo Bay - 133 dead
• February 6 - Fidel Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers
• February 10 - Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced for five and seven years, respectively, for anti-Soviet writings
• February 11 - Belgian government resigns
• February 14 - The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar.
• February 19 - Naval minister of United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns
• February 20 - While Valeri Tarsis, Soviet author and translator, is abroad the Soviet Union negates his citizenship
• February 23 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government with a Ba'athist regime.
• February 24 - A military coup in Ghana raises sacked general Ankrah to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
• February 26 - Curfew in Jakarta
• February 28 - US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, MO

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