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1966 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.
October 9 – The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series in baseball, 1–0, to sweep the series for their first World Championship; Frank Robinson wins the Triple Crown. October 15. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
The following events occurred in February 1966: February 1, 1966 (Tuesday) West ... Michigan), and author of The World of the Talmud, was shot by a member of his ...
In fiction, August 19, 1966, is the date of a nuclear war in the 1960 film The Time Machine, an adaptation of the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells. Remaining in London, the film's hero (played by Rod Taylor ) departs from December 31, 1899, witnessing future wars as he stops at September 13, 1917, then June 19, 1940, until getting ...
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The 1966 FIFA World Cup began in England, with England and Uruguay playing to a 0-0 tie at Wembley in front of 75,000 people, "much less than had been expected". [72] The other 14 nations competing were Mexico, France, West Germany, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Hungary, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Italy and Chile.