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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
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January
January 27 - The British government promises the USA that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions in the region occur.
January - The first SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
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February
February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
February 20 - While Soviet author and translator Valeri Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
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March
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March 5 - A massive theft of nuclear materials is revealed in Brazil.
March 8 - Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
March 11 - French President Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.
March 27 - In South Vietnam, 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
March 29 - The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
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April
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May
May 3 - Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM, with a combined potential 100,000 watts, from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.
May 6 - The Moors Murderers trial at Chester Crown Court ends with Ian Brady being found guilty on all three counts of murder. He is sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of murder and cleared on a third charge, but is guilty of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady. She receives two concurrent terms of life imprisonment for murder and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory.
May 12 - African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
May 12 - Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan - the U.S. denies the story the next day.
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June
June 8 - 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. *
June 21- Opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia.
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July
July 7 - A conference of the Warsaw Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
July 12 - U.S. Lieutenant Major W.H. Whalen is arrested for spying.
July 16 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about Vietnam War - the Soviet government refutes his ideas.
July 19 - A Chinese delegate in the Netherlands, Liu en-Tsiu, is declared persona non grata because of the death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office.
July 22 - The Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata, but tells him not to leave the country before a group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands.
July 28 - The U.S. announces that a U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
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August
August 2 - The Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft.
August 10 - An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the United States.
August 11 - The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
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September
September 13 - TASS reports on clashes between members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards.
September 16 - In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang begins a 100-day hunger strike.
September 18 - Valerie Percy, the 21 year old daughter of Senator Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
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October
October 5 - UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is now celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
October 7 - The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
October 25 - A military court in Jakarta sentences ex-foreign minister Subandrio to death.
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November
November 2 - The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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December
December 31 - Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from the Dulwich Art Gallery in London.
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The DKW automobile goes out of production.
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Nobel prizes
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