Historical Events In 1966

Sep 26 "Staten Island," first icebreaker to enter SF bay

Sep 22 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game

Sep 16 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center

Sep 09 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition

Sep 15 Gemini XI returns to Earth

Sep 06 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV

Sep 03 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry

Sep 10 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 6 weeks

Sep 21 5" of rain falls on NYC

Sep 30 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

Jun 06 Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walks along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

Jun 14 6 RAR arrives in South Vietnam

Jun 13 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

Jun 25 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

Jun 01 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

Jun 25 Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched

Jun 28 The US breaks diplomatic links with Argentina after a military takeover

Jun 10 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK

Jun 06 Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed

Jun 27 First sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premiers

Jun 11 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry

Jun 29 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities

Jun 06 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi

Jun 03 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford &Cernan)

Jun 20 Sheila Scott completes first round-the-world solo flight by a woman

Jun 24 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die

Jun 01 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London

Jun 30 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour

Jun 10 Janis Joplins first live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)

Jun 06 James Meredith wounded by white sniper

Jun 02 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing

Dec 24 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129

Dec 24 Luna 13 lands on Moon

Dec 31 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks

Dec 08 Sinead O’Connor singer:was born

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