* 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

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

Lenny Kaye used the term " classic garage-punk ," in reference to a song recorded in 1966 by The Shadows of Knight, in the liner notes of the anthology album Nuggets, released in 1972.

Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.

In 1966 he was persuaded by producer Lenny Waronker to switch to Warner Bros. Records.

By 1966, the police and the courts had managed to silence Lenny Bruce and taught him a lesson that he should not use " foul language " or disrespect the church and the law.

During one of Lenny Bruce's performances in 1966, he said he was arrested for saying nine words, and says them in alphabetical order: ass, balls, cocksucker, cunt, fuck, motherfucker, piss, shit, tits.

* Lenny Bruce: ( 1925 – 1966 ) American humorist and social critic

Another significant development in the label's history came in 1966 when Ostin hired young independent producer Lenny Waronker as an A & R manager, beginning a strong and enduring mentor / protege relationship between the two.

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is an autobiography by Lenny Bruce, an American satirist and comedian, who died in 1966 at age 40 of a drug overdose.

The OED records the first usage of gung-ho in 1942 ( referring to Evans Carlson's Marines ) and of kung-fu in 1966 ( referring to Bruce Lee's movies ).

Bruce McLaren founded McLaren and was team principal from 1966 until his death in 1970.

Bruce made the team's Grand Prix debut at the 1966 Monaco race ( of the current Formula One teams only Ferrari are older ).

In 1966 she also starred in Roger Corman's The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern, and in 1968 she shared the screen with Elvis Presley in Speedway — her final film.

During this period in London he also collaborated on a number of songs with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, including " I Wish You Could Be Here ", " Cloudy ", and " Red Rubber Ball ", which would be a U. S. No. 1 hit for the Cyrkle in 1966.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hopper, Edward: Two Comedians ( 1966 ); Longo, Robert: Pressure ( 1982 / 83 ); Nauman, Bruce: No No New Museum ( 1987 ; videotape ); Serrano, Andres: A History of Sex ( Head ) ( 1996 ).

Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist / vocalist briefly played with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966 ; the two also had worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse ( which also included Steve Winwood and Paul Jones ).

In 1966 and 1967, he co-hosted a 90-minute Christmas show called The Frankie and Bruce Christmas Show with Bruce Forsyth, featuring many top acts of the day.

* Castro Street ( film ), a 1966 short documentary film directed by Bruce Baillie

The July 4, 1966 edition of RPM Magazine ( published in Toronto ) notes that " Bruce Cockburn and Mr

Lumley appeared in an early episode of the Bruce Forsyth Show in 1966.

The dire housing conditions in Notting Hill led Bruce Kenrick to found the Notting Hill Housing Trust in 1963, helping to drive through new housing legislation in the 1960s and found the national housing organisation Shelter in 1966.

* Challenge ( 1966, Eyemark Records ; reissued on Emanem Records ) ( featuring ; Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Trevor Watts, Bruce Cale, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens ) ( plus Evan Parker & Chris Cambridge on track 10 )

Mecca was a featured location in Roger Corman's 1966 film The Wild Angels, starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Bruce Dern.

In early 1966 in Toronto, Young met Bruce Palmer, a Canadian who was playing bass for a group called the Mynah Birds.

* Bruce Palmer – bass guitar ( 1966 – 1968 ; died 2004 )

* Eric Clapton ( April – August 1965, November 1965 – July 1966 ) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,

A paper titled Program and Addressing Structure in a Time-Sharing Environment by Bruce Arden, Bernard Galler, Frank Westervelt ( all associate directors at UM's academic Computing Center ), and Tom O ' Brian building upon some basic ideas developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) was published in January 1966.

* The Endless Summer, an influential 1966 documentary film about surfers directed by Bruce Brown

* Bogert, Bruce P .; Ossanna, Joseph F., " The heuristics of cepstrum analysis of a stationary complex echoed Gaussian signal in stationary Gaussian noise ", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, v. 12, issue 3, July 19 1966, pp. 373-380