* 1966 – Young Man Kang, Korean director

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

* 1966 – Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Dave Meggett, American football player

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach

* 1966 – Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Sean Hood, American screenwriter

* 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese wrestler

* 1966 – M. V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer

* 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player

* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )

* 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author

* 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor

* 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer

* 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )

In 1965 and 1966, Flxible also licensed its " New Look " transit bus design to Canadair Ltd., an aircraft manufacturer in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec.

* Plate Glass universities-the universities chartered after 1966 ( formerly described as the ' new universities ' or the ' Robbins expansion ' universities ).

Sensing a good opportunity in the textile business, Dhirubhai Ambani, along with Amit Mehra, a Delhi-based chartered accountant and company secretary residing in Ashok Vihar, Delhi, started the first textile mill at Naroda, in Ahmedabad in the year 1966.

Six years later under Mayor James Leonard T. Gordon, Olongapo was reconverted to a chartered city on June 1, 1966.

The Medical University of South Carolina ( MUSC ) Foundation was chartered in 1966 as a charitable, educational foundation to support the education, research, patient care and other programs at the Medical University.

The school was created in 1982 by consolidatiing the Berkeley Institute, an all-girls school chartered in 1886, and the Carroll Street School, a Montessori-style preschool founded in 1966.

The National Park Service hopes by 1966 to have 30,000 campsites available for 100,000 campers a day -- almost twice what there are at present.

Officials estimated the combined programs would cost 5.1 million dollars the first year and would go up to 21 millions by 1966.

The convertible debentures are convertible into common shares at $65 a share by June 1, 1966 ; ;

Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

* 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.

** edited by Manfred Fuhrmann, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig, 1966, 2nd ed.

One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.

The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

In 1966, the number of babies born in Japan dropped by over 25 % as parents tried to avoid the stigma of having a daughter born in the hinoeuma year.

A merger between the two leagues was sought by the senior league and announced in 1966, but was not finalized until 1970.

* 1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Chutzpah Is, introduction by Al Capp ( 1966 ) Colony Publishers

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

* Israel Bar ( 1912 – 1966 ), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961

Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the two started writing songs together, their first being " Isn't It Easy To Say ", eventually recorded by The Hep Stars.

Benjamin Franklin ( 1966 ) 228 pp online edition, short biography by scholar

BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language ) is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

The only home run ball ever hit completely out of Memorial Stadium was slugged by Robinson on Mother's Day in 1966, off Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant.