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Months in Year 1966: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 639

May 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
May 3rd - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 4th - Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
May 5th - Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
May 5th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
May 5th - Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
May 6th - Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
May 6th - Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
May 6th - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
May 7th - 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
May 7th - Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
May 7th - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
May 8th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
May 8th - Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
May 8th - Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
May 9th - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
May 9th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
May 10th - 25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
May 11th - Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
May 12th - St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
May 13th - Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
May 13th - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
May 14th - 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
May 14th - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
May 15th - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset
May 15th - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
May 15th - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
May 16th - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
May 16th - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
May 16th - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
May 17th - KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 21st - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
May 21st - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
May 21st - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
May 21st - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
May 21st - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
May 21st - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
May 22nd - 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
May 22nd - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
May 23rd - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
May 24th - "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
May 25th - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
May 26th - Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
May 26th - Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
May 27th - 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
May 27th - 6 French fighters crash above Spain
May 28th - "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
May 28th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
May 29th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
May 30th - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
May 30th - Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
May 30th - US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
Jun 1st - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
Jun 1st - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
Jun 1st - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
Jun 1st - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
Jun 2nd - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
Jun 3rd - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
Jun 3rd - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
Jun 4th - "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
Jun 4th - -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
Jun 4th - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
Jun 5th - Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
Jun 5th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
Jun 6th - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
Jun 6th - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
Jun 6th - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
Jun 6th - NFL & AFL announce their merger
Jun 6th - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
Jun 7th - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
Jun 8th - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
Jun 8th - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
Jun 9th - 5 Minn Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
Jun 10th - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
Jun 10th - Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
Jun 10th - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
Jun 10th - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
Jun 10th - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
Jun 11th - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
Jun 11th - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
Jun 11th - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
Jun 11th - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
Jun 11th - "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
Jun 11th - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
Jun 11th - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
Jun 11th - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
Jun 12th - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
Jun 12th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
Jun 13th - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
Jun 14th - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
Jun 14th - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
Jun 16th - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
Jun 16th - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
Jun 17th - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
Jun 19th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
Jun 20th - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
Jun 20th - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
Jun 21st - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
Jun 22nd - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
Jun 24th - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 1,068

Mar 4th - Kevin Johnson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
Mar 4th - Mike Small, Aurora Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Emerald Coast)
Mar 4th - Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
Mar 4th - Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
Mar 4th - Dav Pilkey, American author
Mar 4th - Grand Puba, American rapper
Mar 4th - Wash West, English gay porn film director
Mar 5th - Greg Clark, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Mar 5th - Michael Irvin, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
Mar 5th - Tracy Kerdyk, Coral Gables FL, LPGA golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple)
Mar 5th - Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
Mar 5th - Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
Mar 6th - Cliff Meidl, Redondon Beach Calif, sprint kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
Mar 6th - Michelle Edwards, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
Mar 6th - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
Mar 7th - Jeff Feagles, NFL punter (Arizona Cardinals)
Mar 7th - Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
Mar 7th - Terry Carkner, Smiths Falls, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
Mar 7th - Joy Tanner, American actress
Mar 8th - Elliot Boult, Blenheim NZ, Australasia golfer
Mar 8th - Holly Ann Salo, Keani Alaska, Miss Alaska-America (1991)
Mar 8th - Laura McCabe, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
Mar 9th - Juliette Binoche, Paris France, actress (Unbearable Lightness)
Mar 9th - Louis Oliver, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
Mar 9th - Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
Mar 9th - Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
Mar 9th - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
Mar 10th - Edie Brickell, Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
Mar 10th - Michael Timlin, Midland TX, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
Mar 10th - Stephen Mailer, NYC, actor (Red Meat, League of Their Own, War & Love)
Mar 10th - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
Mar 11th - Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut
Mar 11th - Ralph Tamm, NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
Mar 11th - Steve Reed, LA Calif, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
Mar 12th - Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
Mar 12th - Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
Mar 12th - Grant Long, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
Mar 12th - John Thompson III, NCAA Basketball Head Coach
Mar 13th - Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
Mar 13th - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
Mar 14th - Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
Mar 14th - Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992)
Mar 14th - Elise Neal, American actress
Mar 15th - Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
Mar 15th - Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
Mar 16th - Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
Mar 16th - Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
Mar 16th - David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
Mar 16th - Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Phila Eagles)
Mar 17th - Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992)
Mar 17th - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
Mar 18th - Jerry Cantrell, US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
Mar 18th - Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
Mar 19th - Paul Devenport, New Zealand, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
Mar 19th - Andy Sinton, English footballer
Mar 19th - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
Mar 20th - Blas Minor, Merced CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
Mar 20th - Giulio Caravatta, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
Mar 20th - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer
Mar 21st - Al Iafrate, Dearborn Mich, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
Mar 21st - Karen Lunn, Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
Mar 21st - Matthew Maynard, cricketer (big hitting Glamorgan & England player)
Mar 22nd - Brad Edwards, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
Mar 22nd - Brian Shaw, NBA guard (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
Mar 22nd - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
Mar 22nd - Todd Ewen, Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
Mar 22nd - Yahya Ayyash, militant
Mar 22nd - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
Mar 23rd - James Saxon, NFL fullback (Phila Eagles)
Mar 23rd - Marti Pellow, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
Mar 23rd - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
Mar 24th - Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
Mar 24th - Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun)
Mar 25th - David Hohl, Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96)
Mar 25th - Jeff Cross, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
Mar 25th - Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
Mar 25th - Tom Glavine, Concord MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991)
Mar 25th - Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
Mar 26th - Lee Porter, Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
Mar 26th - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
Mar 26th - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
Mar 26th - Michael Imperioli, American actor
Mar 27th - Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
Mar 28th - Jason Garrett, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
Mar 28th - Nathalie Herreman, France, tennis star
Mar 28th - Serge Djelloul, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
Mar 29th - Dwayne Harper, NFL cornerback (SD Chargers)
Mar 29th - Eric Gunderson, Portland OR, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
Mar 29th - Robb Thomas, NFL receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Mar 30th - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
Mar 30th - Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
Mar 31st - Natalie Gosselin, Levis Quebec, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96)
Mar 31st - Thomas Fitzgerald, Bkln NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
Mar 31st - Roger Black, English athlete
Apr 1st - Dave Vankoughnett, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
Apr 1st - Odie Harris, NFL safety/defensive back (Houston Oilers)
Apr 1st - Chris Evans, English disc jockey
Apr 2nd - Andrei Kovalev, NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98)
Apr 2nd - Bill Romanowski, NFL linebacker (Eagles, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
Apr 2nd - Willie Green, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)

Famous Deaths

Results 201 - 255 of 255

Oct 13th - Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, Razor's Edge), dies of heart attack at 72
Oct 13th - Father Marriott, cricketer (one Test for England, 11 wickets), dies
Oct 14th - Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75
Oct 16th - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
Oct 17th - Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91
Oct 17th - Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
Oct 18th - Bill Nestell, US actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73
Oct 18th - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
Oct 19th - Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
Oct 21st - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
Oct 22nd - Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies
Oct 23rd - Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
Oct 24th - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
Oct 26th - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
Oct 27th - Nigel Haig, cricketer (England pace bowler in 5 Tests 1921-30), dies
Oct 29th - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
Oct 30th - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
Nov 2nd - Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73
Nov 2nd - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
Nov 7th - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
Nov 8th - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
Nov 12th - Quincy Porter, US composer, dies at 69
Nov 15th - Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
Nov 18th - Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
Nov 18th - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
Nov 22nd - Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies
Nov 23rd - Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
Nov 26th - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
Nov 26th - Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
Nov 28th - Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63
Dec 2nd - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
Dec 5th - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57
Dec 6th - Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68
Dec 8th - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
Dec 9th - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer, dies at 79
Dec 10th - Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65
Dec 13th - Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer
Dec 14th - Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91
Dec 14th - Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60
Dec 14th - Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
Dec 15th - Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
Dec 17th - Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
Dec 18th - Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico
Dec 19th - Ehm Welk, writer, dies at 82
Dec 23rd - Hv Doderer, writer, dies at 70
Dec 23rd - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68
Dec 24th - Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69
Dec 26th - Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88
Dec 26th - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91
Dec 26th - Noel Gallon, composer, dies at 75
Dec 27th - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)
Dec 30th - Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
Dec 30th - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
Dec 31st - Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native Amer actor (Pony Soldier), dies at 75
Dec 31st - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies