* 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 )

Category: Military units and formations disestablished in 1966

There has been a strong military coup culture, between 1966 and 1999 10 Military Coups in Nigeria took place.

Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses, Wordsworth Military Library, 1966 ISBN 1-85326-691-4

* 58th Military Airlift Squadron ( MAC ), 6 January 1966 – 15 August 1971

As relations between the two factions became worse, the Military Committee initiated the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état which ousted the National Command led by al-Razzaz, Aflaq and their supporters.

* Nigerian Military Juntas ( 1966 – 1979 and 1983 – 1998 )

He served in the U. S. Army from 1966 through 1969, where served as a Lieutenant in the Military Police Corps, and in the Army Reserve, Civil Affairs Branch, through 1972.

Receiving an MA from UBC in 1963, Davey taught for the Canadian armed forces at Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, BC until 1969, while also working on a doctorate in poetics at the University of Southern California in the summers of 1965 and 1966, and a 1966-67 leave of absence.

Air National Guard airlift units, however, began flying regularly to Japan and South Vietnam beginning in 1966 to support Military Airlift Command ( MAC ).

In August 1966 Lin publicly called for a " three-month turmoil " within the PLA, and on October 6 Lin's Central Military Commission issued an urgent instruction that all military academies and institutes were to dismiss their classes and allow their students to become fully involved in the Cultural Revolution.

Category: Military units and formations established in 1966

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada ( RMC ) in 1961, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his Ph. D from Duke University in 1966.

To control the issue further, a cadre of personnel was assigned to activate the 3330th Basic Military Training School at Amarillo Air Force Base in Amarillo, Texas, in February 1966.

During the 1960s, more permanent facilities were constructed, including four 1, 000-person steel and brick Recruit Housing and Training ( RH & T ) dormitories built between 1966 and 1970 for basic military training by the Lackland Military Training Center.

General William C. Westmoreland, commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam ( MACV ), officially authorized the creation of provisional LRRP units on 8 July 1966.

* Military Airlift Command, 1 January 1966

Redesignated Western Transport Air Force ( WESTAF ), the organization managed all MATS operations from the Mississippi River west to the east coast of Africa until MATS was replaced by the Military Airlift Command in 1966.

* Military Airlift Command, 1 January 1966

* 60th Military Airlift ( later, 60 Airlift ) Wing, 8 Jan 1966 – 15 Feb 1979 ; 21 Jul 1980-1 Jul 1993

* 61st Military Airlift ( later, 61 Military Airlift Support ) Wing, 8 Jan 1966 – 1 Oct 1978

The 610th Military Airlift Support Squadron ( 1966 – 78 ) was created by Military Airlift Command to service the large increase in transiting airlift.

* 610th Military Airlift Support Squadron ( 1966 – 78 )