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January 17 – 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A USAF B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea. Carl Brashear , the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter which results in ...
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.
February 3, 1966: Soviet probe Luna 9 sends back the first pictures transmitted from the Moon's surface February 14, 1966: Australia goes decimal, introduces the dollar..... and phases out the pound February 28, 1966: U.S. astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in plane crash three months before scheduled Gemini 9 mission
The 1966 FIFA World Cup competition, staged in England, begins. British Motor Corporation and Jaguar Cars announce plans to merge as British Motor Holdings . Scotsman Angus Barbieri ends a 382-day fast , during which he consumed only water, vitamins, salts, yeast and a small amount of milk and sugar, and achieved his aim of losing 276 lb (125 kg).
1966 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1966 disestablishments in the United States (48 C, 9 P) 1966 establishments in the United States (59 C, 59 P) A.
The 1966 elections were an unexpected disaster, with defeats for many of the more liberal Democrats. According to Alan Draper, the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Action (COPE) was the main electioneering unit of the labor movement. It ignored the white backlash against civil rights, which had become a main Republican attack point.
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 ...
The following lists events that happened during 1966 in Australia. 1966 in Australia ... The event is almost overshadowed when six teenage girls are ejected by police ...