* 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 )

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.

In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood.

On March 3, 1966, Frawley collapsed of a heart attack while walking down Hollywood Boulevard after seeing a movie, Inside Daisy Clover.

The production was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Actress in a Musical ( Daisy Eagan as Mary, at eleven years old is the youngest girl ever to win a Tony, Frankie Michaels is the youngest person to ever win a Tony at age ten for his performance in the Broadway musical Mame in 1966 ).

* Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger, 1963 ; Sex and the Single Girl, 1964 ; Inside Daisy Clover, 1965 ; The Great Race, 1965 ; Penelope, 1966 ; This Property Is Condemned, 1966 ; The Last Married Couple in America, 1980

* 1966 – Color – Inside Daisy Clover

Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, opening in 1966, ran for 1, 064 performances at the theatre, a record that was not surpassed until Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of the Olivier Award-winning comedy Daisy Pulls It Off by Densie Deegan opened in April 1983 to run for 1, 180 performances, the theatre's longest run.

* 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author ( d. 1966 )

Gregorio López y Fuentes ( November 17, 1895 – December 10, 1966 ) was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist.

Photos of the incident ( Official Baseball Guide 1966, Sporting News, p. 19 ) also show Tito Fuentes ( who was in the on-deck circle ) wielding a bat threateningly, but Fuentes did not actually hit Roseboro and was not ejected.

In 1966 Rubén Fuentes wrote " La Bikina ", a song that was recognized as the epitome of this Revolutionary New Harmony and sound of the mariachi.

* 1966 – René Arocha, Cuban baseball player

* 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123, 000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

1966 saw Ortiz draw with world Jr Welterweight champion Nicolino Locche in a ten round non-title affair in Argentina, and retain his title vs Johnny Bizarro ( KO in 12 in Pittsburgh ), Cuban Sugar Ramos ( another International Boxing Hall Of Fame Member, ko in 5 rounds in Mexico City ) and Filipino Flash Elorde, also by ko in 14 at a New York rematch.

* Carlos Varela ( wrestler ) ( born 1966 ), Cuban wrestler

* Ramón González ( athlete ) ( born 1966 ), Cuban javelin thrower

* Ramón González ( born 1966 ), Cuban javelin thrower

* Paradiso ( 1966 novel ), a novel by Cuban writer José Lezama Lima

Tricontinental is a leftist quarterly magazine founded during the 1966 Tricontinental Conference, currently published by the Cuban organisation OSPAAAL.

From the founding of OSPAAAL and Tricontinental in 1966 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which led to a rapid recession in the Cuban economy, propaganda posters were folded up and placed inside copies of the magazine, however, this was stopped, along with publication of Tricontinental, due to ink shortages and financial trouble.

Between 1963 and 1966 ten locomotives similar to the British Rail Class 47 were supplied to Ferrocarriles de Cuba ( Cuban National Railways ).

* Jorge Molina ( 1966 –), Cuban film director

La muerte de un burócrata () is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in which he pokes fun at the communist bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of the common people who have to waste time and overcome hurdles just to get on with their ordinary lives.

* Carlos Varela ( wrestler ) ( born 1966 ), Cuban wrestler

Roberto Faz ( 1914 – 26 April 1966 ) was a Cuban musician born in Regla who reached the height of his popularity from the 1950s to 1960s.

* November 2, 1966: Cuban Adjustment Act,

The wet foot, dry foot policy is the name given to a consequence of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that says, essentially, that anyone who fled Cuba and got into the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later.