* 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 )

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

In 1966, Billy Ritchie became the first keyboard player to take a lead role in a rock band, replacing guitar, and thereby preparing the ground for others such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman.

* Rick Mount, 1966 Indiana " Mr. Basketball " award recipient, former Purdue basketball player, member of the 1972 ABA Championship Indiana Pacers team.

Rick Roufus ( born June 3, 1966 ) is an American kickboxer, fighting out of The MMA Lab in Phoenix, Arizona.

Rick Roufus was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America on June 3, 1966.

The Coliseum also hosted the ABA Oakland Oaks ( 1967-1969 ) who convinced Warriors star Rick Barry to jump from the NBA, and Bay Bombers ( Roller Derby, 1966 – 1973 ) as well as the Golden Bay Earthquakes of the original MISL during the 1982-83 season.

* Rick initially appeared in the 1966 Incredible Hulk segment of The Marvel Superheroes, voiced by Paul Soles.

Like the 1966 series, Betty ( as are most of the series regulars, other than Rick Jones ) is unaware that Banner transforms into the Hulk.

# Rocket Jumper ( 1966 ) Rick and Scotty use a rocket pack to save their loved ones from a fearsome plot.

On June 27, 1966, The Rolling Stones played in Dillon Stadium, supported by The McCoys ( with their up-and-coming guitarist, Rick Derringer ).

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

* 1887 – Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer ( d. 1966 )

In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.

* 1966 – Matt Neal, British Race Driver

* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972

Haryana was administered as part of the Punjab province of British India, and was carved out on linguistic lines as India's 17th state in 1966.

* 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer ( b. 1887 )

* 1966 – Shelagh Fogarty, British radio presenter

* Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ; 1966 )

In return, British aircraft would be able to transit through Kenya, RN ships of the East Indies Station and other units could visit Mombasa, communications facilities could be used until 1966, and troops could exercise in Kenya twice a year ( of which the last commitment continues to this day ).

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

* 1966 Amorites and Canaanites, ( Schweich Lectures Series, 1963 ), London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford * University Press, 1966.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

The extent to which the British exerted direct control over Basutoland waxed and waned until Basutoland's independence in 1966, when it became the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Regional districts were first created across British Columbia in 1966 – 1967 to form bodies for inter-municipal coordination and to extend municipal-level powers to areas outside existing municipalities.

The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.

* 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.

* 1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor

* 1966 – Peter Jones, British entrepreneur

* 1966 – Russell Watson, British singer

* 1966 – Helen Fospero, British television presenter and newsreader

Bolstered by an image overhaul — including bleached-blonde hair, frosted lips, heavy eye make-up and Carnaby Street fashions — Sinatra made her mark on the American ( and British ) music scene in early 1966 with " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '", its title inspired by a line in Robert Aldrich's 1963 western comedy 4 for Texas starring her father and Dean Martin.