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  • Timor-Leste
    1966
    Xanana Gusmão

    Gusmão obtained a position with the public service

    Timor-Leste
    1966

    He attended a Jesuit high school just outside Dili. After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing his education at night school.In 1966, Gusmão obtained a position with the public service, which allowed him to continue his education.




  • China
    1966
    Mao Zedong

    The Split From Soviet Union

    China
    1966

    On the international front, the period was dominated by the further isolation of China. The Sino-Soviet split resulted in Nikita Khrushchev's withdrawal of all Soviet technical experts and aid from the country. The split concerned the leadership of world communism. The USSR had a network of Communist parties it supported; China now created its own rival network to battle it out for local control of the left in numerous countries.




  • Norway
    1966
    Mobile Phones

    OLT System

    Norway
    1966

    In 1966 Norway had a system called OLT which was manually controlled.




  • Spain
    1966
    Amancio Ortega

    Marriage

    Spain
    1966

    Ortega married Rosalia Mera in 1966.




  • U.S.
    1966
    Warren Buffett

    Buffett Closed the Partnership

    U.S.
    1966

    In 1966, Buffett closed the partnership to new money.




  • California, U.S.
    1966
    Visa Inc.

    BofA began to sign licensing agreements with a group of banks outside of California

    California, U.S.
    1966

    The original goal of BofA was to offer the BankAmericard product across California, but in 1966, BofA began to sign licensing agreements with a group of banks outside of California, in response to a new competitor, Master Charge (now MasterCard), which had been created by an alliance of several other California banks to compete against BankAmericard.




  • France
    1966
    NATO Establishment

    The Withdrawal of France From NATO's Military Structure

    France
    1966

    Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion – doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of France from NATO's military structure in 1966.


  • Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia)
    1966
    Slobodan Milošević

    Graduation

    Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia)
    1966

    After Milošević graduation from the University of Belgrade's Law School in 1966, Milošević became an economic advisor to Mayor of Belgrade Branko Pešić.


  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1966
    Carlos Slim

    Inmobiliaria Carso

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1966

    In 1966, worth US$40 million,Slim founded Inmobiliaria Carso.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1966
    World Bank

    International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1966

    The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) is an international arbitration institution established in 1966 for legal dispute resolution and conciliation between international investors. The ICSID is part of and funded by the World Bank Group, headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is an autonomous, multilateral specialized institution to encourage international flow of investment and mitigate non-commercial risks by a treaty drafted by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development's executive directors and signed by member countries. As of May 2016, 153 contracting member states agreed to enforce and uphold arbitral awards in accordance with the ICSID Convention.


  • U.S.
    1966
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Wealth

    U.S.
    1966

    It isn't known exactly how much he was worth at the time of his death, but ten years before he died, he was forced to sell his shares in the airline company TWA. The payout? $546 million (about $3.8 billion today), estimated by some to have been about 1/3 of his net worth.


  • U.S.
    1966
    DC Comics

    Batman TV show on the ABC network sparked a temporary spike in comic book sales

    U.S.
    1966

    A 1966 Batman TV show on the ABC network sparked a temporary spike in comic book sales, and a brief fad for superheroes in Saturday morning animation (Filmation created most of DC's initial cartoons) and other media.


  • Santa Monica, California, U.S.
    1966
    Nike, Inc.

    The First Retail Store

    Santa Monica, California, U.S.
    1966

    In 1966, BRS opened its first retail store, located at 3107 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California next to a beauty salon, so its employees no longer needed to sell inventory from the back of their cars.


  • Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
    1966
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Later years as a Las Vegas recluse

    Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
    1966

    The wealthy and aging Hughes, accompanied by his entourage of personal aides, began moving from one hotel to another, always taking up residence in the top floor penthouse. In the last ten years of his life, 1966 to 1976, Hughes lived in hotels in many cities—including Beverly Hills, Boston, Las Vegas, Nassau, Freeport, Vancouver, London, Managua, and Acapulco.


  • U.S.
    1966
    New York Stock Exchange

    Common Stock Index

    U.S.
    1966

    In 1966, NYSE begins a composite index of all listed common stocks. This is referred to as the "Common Stock Index" and is transmitted daily. The starting point of the index is 50. It is later renamed the NYSE Composite Index.


  • Havana, Cuba
    Monday Jan 3, 1966
    Fidel Castro

    The Tri-Continental Conference of Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Havana, Cuba
    Monday Jan 3, 1966

    In 1966 Castro staged a Tri-Continental Conference of Africa, Asia and Latin America in Havana, further establishing himself as a significant player on the world stage.


  • Salalah, Dhofar, Oman
    1966
    Qaboos bin Said al Said

    Arrested by father

    Salalah, Dhofar, Oman
    1966

    After his military service, Qaboos studied local government subjects in England and then completed his education with a world tour chaperoned by Leslie Chauncy. Upon his return in 1966, he was placed under virtual house arrest in the Sultan's palace in Salalah by his father.


  • Mediterranean Sea
    Monday Jan 17, 1966
    Atomic Bomb

    The 1966 Palomares B-52 Crash

    Mediterranean Sea
    Monday Jan 17, 1966

    January 17, 1966: the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash occurred when a B-52G bomber of the USAF collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard. Of the four Mk28 type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were found on land near Almería, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by radioactive plutonium. The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact after a 2½-month-long search.


  • New Delhi, India
    Sunday Jan 23, 1966
    Indira Gandhi

    The Prime Minister of India

    New Delhi, India
    Sunday Jan 23, 1966

    In January 1966, after Shastri's death, the Congress legislative party elected Indira Gandhi over Morarji Desai as their leader. Congress party veteran K. Kamaraj was instrumental in achieving Indira's victory. Because she was a woman, other political leaders in India saw Gandhi as weak and hoped to use her as a puppet once elected.


  • Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.
    1966
    Donald Trump

    Wharton School

    Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.
    1966

    Two years later he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


  • U.S. and Canada
    Saturday Jan 29, 1966
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    North American Blizzard of 1966

    U.S. and Canada
    Saturday Jan 29, 1966

    The Blizzard of 1966 swept across most of the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains on January 29, 1966, and brought record low temperatures, high winds and heavy snowfall in its wake. Within days, at least 142 people had been killed — 31 had frozen to death, 46 died in fires that started while people were trying to heat their home.


  • Brazil
    1966
    Thanksgiving

    Law 5110

    Brazil
    1966

    In 1966, Law 5110 established that the Thanksgiving celebration would take place on the fourth Thursday of November.


  • Kingston, Jamaica
    Thursday Feb 10, 1966
    Bob Marley

    Marriage

    Kingston, Jamaica
    Thursday Feb 10, 1966

    In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.


  • Brussels, Belgium
    Feb, 1966
    Charles de Gaulle

    France withdrew from the NATO

    Brussels, Belgium
    Feb, 1966

    In February 1966, France withdrew from the NATO Military Command Structure but remained within the organization.


  • Michigan, U.S.
    1966
    Internet

    Merit Network was formed

    Michigan, U.S.
    1966

    The Merit Network was formed in 1966 as the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad to explore computer networking between three of Michigan's public universities as a means to help the state's educational and economic development. With initial support from the State of Michigan and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the packet-switched network was first demonstrated in December 1971 when an interactive host to host connection was made between the IBM mainframe computer systems at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Wayne State University in Detroit. In October 1972 connections to the CDC mainframe at Michigan State University in East Lansing completed the triad. Over the next several years in addition to host to host interactive connections the network was enhanced to support terminal to host connections, host to host batch connections (remote job submission, remote printing, batch file transfer), interactive file transfer, gateways to the Tymnet and Telenet public data networks, X.25 host attachments, gateways to X.25 data networks, Ethernet attached hosts, and eventually TCP/IP and additional public universities in Michigan join the network. All of this set the stage for Merit's role in the NSFNET project starting in the mid-1980s.


  • U.S.
    Friday Feb 25, 1966
    Nuclear Power

    USS Queenfish (SSN-651)

    U.S.
    Friday Feb 25, 1966

    USS Queenfish was the first nuclear-powered warship to visit Australia. Queenfish berthed at Station Pier, Melbourne, on 5 March 1968. The visit was a success, despite anti-nuclear protests. Queenfish spent the early months of 1967 practicing under-ice operations in the Davis Strait.


  • England
    Friday Mar 4, 1966
    The Beatles

    Lennon's comment

    England
    Friday Mar 4, 1966

    Almost as soon as they returned home, the Beatles faced a fierce backlash from US religious and social conservatives (as well as the Ku Klux Klan) over a comment Lennon had made in a March interview with British reporter Maureen Cleave. "Christianity will go," Lennon had said. "It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. ... Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."


  • U.S.
    1966
    Father's Day

    First presidential proclamation honoring fathers

    U.S.
    1966

    In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.


  • Launch Complex 19 - Titan rocket, Gemini program, Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Mar 16, 1966
    Neil Armstrong

    The Launching of Gemini 8

    Launch Complex 19 - Titan rocket, Gemini program, Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Mar 16, 1966

    Gemini 8 launched on March 16, 1966. And Armstrong became the first American civilian in space.


  • Waterloo, New York, U.S.
    Thursday May 26, 1966
    Memorial day

    Waterloo proclamation

    Waterloo, New York, U.S.
    Thursday May 26, 1966

    On May 26, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson designated an "official" birthplace of the holiday by signing the presidential proclamation naming Waterloo, New York, as the holder of the title. This action followed House Concurrent Resolution 587, in which the 89th Congress had officially recognized that the patriotic tradition of observing Memorial Day had begun one hundred years prior to Waterloo, New York. The village credits druggist Henry C. Welles and county clerk John B. Murray as the founders of the holiday. Scholars have determined that the Waterloo account is a myth. Snopes and Live Science also discredit the Waterloo account.


  • U.S.
    Monday Jun 6, 1966
    Richard Nixon

    Retirement

    U.S.
    Monday Jun 6, 1966

    On 1953, he was promoted to commander. And finally he retired in the U.S. Naval Reserve on June 6, 1966.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1966
    Internet

    Three network terminals had been installed

    U.S.
    Jun, 1966

    Robert Taylor was promoted to the head of the information processing office at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in June 1966. He intended to realize Licklider's ideas of an interconnected networking system. As part of the information processing office's role, three network terminals had been installed: one for System Development Corporation in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at University of California, Berkeley, and one for the Compatible Time-Sharing System project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Taylor's identified need for networking became obvious from the waste of resources apparent to him.


  • England, United Kingdom
    1966
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Margaret had her first extramarital affair

    England, United Kingdom
    1966

    Reportedly, Margaret had her first extramarital affair in 1966, with her daughter's godfather Anthony Barton, a Bordeaux wine producer.


  • United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1966
    James Bond

    Octopussy and The Living Daylights was published

    United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1966

    Octopussy and The Living Daylights (sometimes published as Octopussy) is the 14th and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 13, 1966
    Audrey Hepburn

    How to Steal a Million

    U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 13, 1966

    As the decade carried on, Hepburn appeared in an assortment of genres including the heist comedy How to Steal a Million (1966) where she played the daughter of a famous art collector, whose collection consists entirely of forgeries. Fearing her father's exposure, she sets out to steal one of his "priceless" statues with the help of a man played by Peter O'Toole.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 19, 1966
    Frank Sinatra

    3rd Marriage

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 19, 1966

    Sinatra reportedly broke off engagements to Lauren Bacall in 1958 and Juliet Prowse in 1962.He married Mia Farrow on July 19, 1966 .


  • Cuba
    Thursday Jul 21, 1966
    Che Guevara

    To Cuba

    Cuba
    Thursday Jul 21, 1966

    As Guevara prepared for Bolivia, he secretly traveled back to Cuba on July 21, 1966 to visit Castro.


  • Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Friday Jul 22, 1966
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman estimated that there were approximately 700 Communists

    Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Friday Jul 22, 1966

    By 22 July 1966, the Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman estimated that there were approximately 700 Communists in Indonesian Kalimantan and about 2,000 sympathisers.


  • U.S.
    Aug, 1966
    The Beatles

    The Datebook magazine Publish Lennon's comment

    U.S.
    Aug, 1966

    Lennon's comment went virtually unnoticed in England, but when US teenage fan magazine Datebook printed it five months later – on the eve of the group's August US tour – it sparked a controversy with Christians in the American "Bible Belt". The Vatican issued a protest, and bans on Beatles' records were imposed by Spanish and Dutch stations and South Africa's national broadcasting service.


  • Austin, Texas, U.S.
    Monday Aug 1, 1966
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    University of Texas Tower Shooting

    Austin, Texas, U.S.
    Monday Aug 1, 1966

    On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes, he shot and killed 13 more people (including a pregnant woman) and injured 31 others.


  • Chicago, U.S.
    Friday Aug 5, 1966
    Martin Luther King

    Chicago open housing movement

    Chicago, U.S.
    Friday Aug 5, 1966

    King later stated and Abernathy wrote that the movement received a worse reception in Chicago than in the South. Marches, especially the one through Marquette Park on August 5, 1966, were met by thrown bottles and screaming throngs. Rioting seemed very possible. King's beliefs militated against his staging a violent event, and he negotiated an agreement with Mayor Richard J. Daley to cancel a march in order to avoid the violence that he feared would result.


  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Saturday Aug 6, 1966
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    Emir of Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Saturday Aug 6, 1966

    The discovery of oil in 1958, and the start of oil exports in 1962, led to frustration among members of the ruling family about the lack of progress under Sheikh Shakhbut’s rule. On 6 August 1966, Shakhbut was deposed in a bloodless palace coup. The move to replace Shakhbut with Zayed had the unanimous backing of the Al Nahyan family. The news was conveyed to Shakhbut by British Acting Resident Glen Balfour-Paul who added the support of the British to the consensus of the family. Shakhbut finally accepted the decision and, with the Trucial Oman Scouts providing safe transport, left for Bahrain. He subsequently lived in Korramshahr, Iran before returning to live in Buraimi.


  • St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
    Monday Aug 22, 1966
    Best Buy

    Richard M. Schulze and a business partner opened Sound of Music

    St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
    Monday Aug 22, 1966

    On August 22, 1966, Richard M. Schulze and a business partner opened Sound of Music, an electronics store specializing in high fidelity stereos in St. Paul, Minnesota.


  • Skaneateles, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 27, 1966
    Joe Biden

    Biden married Neilia Hunter

    Skaneateles, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 27, 1966

    On August 27, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter (1942–1972), a student at Syracuse University, after overcoming her parents' reluctance for her to wed a Roman Catholic; the ceremony was held in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York. They had three children: Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III (1969–2015), Robert Hunter Biden (born 1970), and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden (1971–1972).


  • Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California, USA
    Monday Aug 29, 1966
    The Beatles

    The last commercial concert a four-year period

    Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California, USA
    Monday Aug 29, 1966

    The band's concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on 29 August was their last commercial concert. It marked the end of a four-year period dominated by almost nonstop touring that included over 1,400 concert appearances internationally.


  • Netherlands
    Wednesday Sep 7, 1966
    Johan Cruyff

    International Official debut

    Netherlands
    Wednesday Sep 7, 1966

    On 7 September 1966, he made his official debut for the Netherlands in the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifier against Hungary, scoring in the 2–2 draw.


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1966
    Stan Lee

    The Amazing Spider-Man

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1966

    Following Ditko's departure from Marvel in 1966, John Romita Sr. became Lee's collaborator on The Amazing Spider-Man. Within a year, it overtook Fantastic Four to become the company's top seller. Lee and Romita's stories focused as much on the social and college lives of the characters as they did on Spider-Man's adventures.


  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    Sep, 1966
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle's speech in Phnom Penh in Cambodia expressed France's disapproval of the US involvement in the Vietnam War

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    Sep, 1966

    In September 1966, in a famous speech in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, he expressed France's disapproval of the US involvement in the Vietnam War, calling for a US withdrawal from Vietnam as the only way to ensure peace.


  • Washington, DC, U.S.
    1966
    Coverture

    Obsolete

    Washington, DC, U.S.
    1966

    After decades of criticism, finally, in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court said "the institution of coverture is ... obsolete" even while acknowledging coverture's existence in 1–11 states.


  • Launch Complex 19 - Titan rocket, Gemini program, Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.
    Monday Sep 12, 1966
    Neil Armstrong

    The Final assignment for Armstrong in the Gemini Program

    Launch Complex 19 - Titan rocket, Gemini program, Cape Kennedy, Florida, U.S.
    Monday Sep 12, 1966

    The final assignment for Armstrong in the Gemini program was as the back-up Command Pilot for Gemini 11, announced two days after the landing of Gemini 8. The launch was on September 12, 1966, with Conrad and Gordon on board, who successfully completed the mission objectives, while Armstrong served as a capsule communicator (CAPCOM).


  • Monrovia, Liberia
    Saturday Oct 1, 1966
    George Weah

    Born

    Monrovia, Liberia
    Saturday Oct 1, 1966

    Weah was born and raised in the Clara Town district of Monrovia.


  • Sarawak, Malaysia
    Oct, 1966
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    "hot pursuit" operations

    Sarawak, Malaysia
    Oct, 1966

    On October 1966, both governments allowed their military forces to cross the border in "hot pursuit" operations.


  • Marylebone, London, England
    Sunday Oct 9, 1966
    David Cameron

    Born

    Marylebone, London, England
    Sunday Oct 9, 1966

    Cameron was born in Marylebone, London, and raised at Peasemore in Berkshire.


  • Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
    1966
    Richard Branson

    Richard attended Stowe School

    Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
    1966

    Richard attended Stowe School, an independent school in Buckinghamshire until the age of sixteen.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1966
    Richard Branson

    Branson launched a magazine named Student

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1966

    After failed attempts to grow and sell both Christmas trees and budgerigars, Branson launched a magazine named Student in 1966 with Nik Powell. The first issue of Student appeared in January 1968, and a year later, Branson's net worth was estimated at £50,000. The office for the venture was situated in the crypt of St. John's Church, off Bayswater Road, in London.


  • New York, U.S.
    1966
    Bank of America

    Master Charge

    New York, U.S.
    1966

    A coalition of regional bankcard associations introduced Interbank in 1966 to compete with BankAmericard. Interbank became Master Charge in 1966 and then MasterCard in 1979.


  • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1966
    Kroger

    All chains adopted the Kroger banner

    Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
    1966

    All of these chains adopted the Kroger banner in 1966.


  • La Paz, Bolivia
    Thursday Nov 3, 1966
    Che Guevara

    To La Paz

    La Paz, Bolivia
    Thursday Nov 3, 1966

    On November 3, 1966, Guevara secretly arrived in La Paz on a flight from Montevideo under the false name Adolfo Mena González, posing as a middle-aged Uruguayan businessman working for the Organization of American States.


  • England
    Monday Nov 7, 1966
    FIFA World Cup

    Stolen one

    England
    Monday Nov 7, 1966

    The 1966 World Cup, hosted by England, was the first to embrace marketing, featuring a mascot and official logo for the first time. The trophy was stolen in the run-up to the tournament but was found a week later by a dog named "Pickles".


  • Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1966
    Jimmy Carter

    1966 Georgia gubernatorial election

    Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1966

    The 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1966. After an election that exposed divisions within the Georgia Democratic Party (giving the Georgia Republican Party a shot at the Governor's Mansion for the first time in the twentieth century), segregationist Democrat Lester Maddox was elected Governor of Georgia by the Georgia General Assembly. The voting also brought future President Jimmy Carter to statewide prominence for the first time.


  • California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1966
    Ronald Reagan

    A Governor

    California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1966

    California Republicans were impressed with Reagan's political views and charisma after his "A Time for Choosing" speech, and nominated him as the Republican party candidate for Governor in 1966, He was elected to his first term on November 8, 1966, with more than 57% of the vote, defeating two-term governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown by nearly a million votes.


  • U.S.
    1966
    Xerox

    Xerox 2400

    U.S.
    1966

    Xerox's first foray into duplicating, as distinct from copying, was with the Xerox 2400, introduced in 1966. The model number denoted the number of prints produced in an hour. Although not as fast as offset printing, this machine introduced the industry's first automatic document feeder, paper slitter and perforator, and collator (sorter). This product was soon sped up by fifty percent to become the Xerox 3600 Duplicator.


  • Houston Astrodome, Houston, U.S.
    Monday Nov 14, 1966
    Muhammad Ali Clay

    Mohammad Ali vs Williams

    Houston Astrodome, Houston, U.S.
    Monday Nov 14, 1966

    Ali prepared to fight Cleveland Williams in the Houston Astrodome on November 14, 1966. Ali dominated Williams, winning a third-round technical knockout in what some consider the finest performance of his career.


  • U.S.
    Monday Dec 12, 1966
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower underwent surgery

    U.S.
    Monday Dec 12, 1966

    In August 1966 Eisenhower began to show symptoms of cholecystitis, for which he underwent surgery on December 12, 1966, when his gallbladder was removed, containing 16 gallstones.


  • St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, California, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 15, 1966
    Walt Disney

    Death

    St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, California, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 15, 1966

    Disney had been a heavy smoker since World War I. He did not use cigarettes with filters and had smoked a pipe as a young man. In November 1966, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and was treated with cobalt therapy. On November 30 he felt unwell and was taken to St. Joseph Hospital where, on December 15, ten days after his 65th birthday, he died of circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer.


  • U.S.
    1966
    Jimmy Hoffa

    President of the IBT for the Third Time

    U.S.
    1966

    Hoffa was re-elected, without opposition, to a third five-year term as president of the IBT, despite having been convicted of jury tampering and mail fraud in court verdicts that were stayed pending review on appeal. Delegates in Miami Beach also elected Frank Fitzsimmons as first vice-president, to become president "if Hoffa has to serve a jail term".


  • Danville, Virginia, U.S.
    1966
    Richard Jewell

    Divorce of His Mother

    Danville, Virginia, U.S.
    1966

    In 1966, Richard's birth-parents divorced when he was four.


  • Danville, Virginia, U.S.
    1966
    Richard Jewell

    Adoption

    Danville, Virginia, U.S.
    1966

    When his mother remarried to John Jewell, an insurance executive, his stepfather adopted him.


  • Vietnam
    1966
    Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1966

    Vietnam
    1966

    In 1966, 6350 Americans and 11953 Vietnamese were killed.


  • Myanmar
    1966
    Conflict in Myanmar

    The Cultural Revolution

    Myanmar
    1966

    In 1967, following China's initiation of the Cultural Revolution, violence broke out between local Bamars and overseas Chinese in Myanmar, leading to anti-Chinese riots in Rangoon (present-day Yangon) and other cities.


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