1966

Clockwise from top-left: a catastrophic release of colliery waste kills 144 people in Aberfan, Wales; Vietnamese Buddhists stage an anti-government demonstration against the present government; a conflict between South West Africa (now Namibia), South Africa and the SWAPO takes place; the 1966 FIFA World Cup is held in England; the Gemini 8 mission is the first link of two spacecraft together in Earth's orbit; Hurricane Inez kills 1,269 people; a series of earthquakes in Xingtai kills over 8,064 people; Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution to purge any remnants of pre-Communist society.
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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.

1966 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1966
MCMLXVI
Ab urbe condita2719
Armenian calendar1415
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Assyrian calendar6716
Baháʼí calendar122–123
Balinese saka calendar1887–1888
Bengali calendar1373
Berber calendar2916
British Regnal year14 Eliz. 2 – 15 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2510
Burmese calendar1328
Byzantine calendar7474–7475
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4662 or 4602
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4663 or 4603
Coptic calendar1682–1683
Discordian calendar3132
Ethiopian calendar1958–1959
Hebrew calendar5726–5727
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2022–2023
 - Shaka Samvat1887–1888
 - Kali Yuga5066–5067
Holocene calendar11966
Igbo calendar966–967
Iranian calendar1344–1345
Islamic calendar1385–1386
Japanese calendarShōwa 41
(昭和41年)
Javanese calendar1897–1898
Juche calendar55
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4299
Minguo calendarROC 55
民國55年
Nanakshahi calendar498
Thai solar calendar2509
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
2092 or 1711 or 939
    — to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
2093 or 1712 or 940

Events

January

February

March

April

May

Flag of Guyana

June

July

August

September

Flag of Botswana

October

Flag of Lesotho

November

Flag of Barbados

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Ivica Dačić
Christian Kern
Nadia Maftouni
Lena Philipsson
Stefan Edberg
Romário

February

Cindy Crawford
Téa Leoni

March

April

Robin Wright
Samantha Fox
Jeffrey Dean Morgan

May

Charlie Schlatter
Stephen Baldwin
Greg Wise
Janet Jackson
H. Jon Benjamin
Helena Bonham Carter

June

Julianna Margulies
Emmanuelle Seigner
J. J. Abrams
John Cusack
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama
Mike Tyson

July

Enrique Peña Nieto

August

Jimmy Wales
Halle Berry
Enrico Letta

September

Salma Hayek
Adam Sandler
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan
Nechirvan Barzani
Maria Canals-Barrera

October

David Cameron
Roman Abramovich
Zoran Milanovic

November

David Schwimmer
Gordon Ramsay
Vincent Cassel

December

Patricia Kaas
Kiefer Sutherland

Date unknown

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Vincent Auriol
Georges Theunis

February

Buster Keaton
Louisa Martindale

March

Frits Zernike
Néstor Guillén

April

Evelyn Waugh

May

Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
Venceslau Brás

June

Ed Wynn

July

Montgomery Clift
Frank O'Hara

August

Lenny Bruce

September

Hendrik Verwoerd

October

Elizabeth Arden

November

Sean T. O'Kelly

December

Walt Disney

Nobel Prizes


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