Historical Events In 1966

Jan 10 India & Pakistan sign peace accord

Jan 29 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

Jan 12 LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends

Jan 01 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1

Jan 18 Indira Gandhi is elected prime minister of India.

Jan 09 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism

Jan 07 Gene Kiniski a Canadian, beats Lou Thesz in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ

Jan 30 -27ºF (-33ºC), New Market AL (state record)

Jan 11 "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV with John Wayne

Jan 07 Canadian Gene Kiniski defeats veteran champion Lou Thesz two falls to one to become the world professional heavyweight champion

Jan 07 Close to 200 passengers and crew from a Canadian Nationla pass. train are evacuated by helicopter after being trapped bvy snow slides in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia

Jan 01 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City NY subway

Jan 10 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

Jan 31 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers

Jan 16 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center

Jan 29 Lawry &Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide

Jan 01 Military coup by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa in Central African Republic

Jan 07 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts

Jan 12 12 day New York City NY transit strike ends

Jan 21 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd

Jan 07 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts

Jan 29 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen

Jan 11 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain

Jan 29 Snow storm in north east US kills 165

Jan 07 Gene Kiniski a Canadian, beats Lou Thesz in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ

Feb 04 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133

Feb 23 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government

Feb 24 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

Feb 25 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad

Feb 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Feb 28 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes

Feb 23 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda

Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 20 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR

Feb 27 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria

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