* 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 )

" Jupp points out that, " decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of the symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir Robert Menzies, which lasted until 1966.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243, 000 more men by the end of 1966.

* 1966 – Robert DeLeo, American musician ( Stone Temple Pilots )

For twenty-two years, from its founding in 1944 to his retirement in 1966, the Liberal Party had had only one leader, Robert Menzies.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at The Pentagon in July 1966.

* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

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.

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

Next Marvin performed in the hit Western The Professionals ( 1966 ), in which he played the leader of a small band of skilled mercenaries ( Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode ) rescuing a kidnap victim ( Claudia Cardinale ) shortly after the Mexican Revolution.

* 1908 – Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer ( d. 1966 )

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.

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC, MP ( 1965 – 1966 )

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1966 – 1976 )

In 1966 British exhibitors voted Robert Vaughan and David McCallum the 3rd biggest stars at the box office.

In a 1966 interview for the Los Angeles Times by reporter Robert Musel, McGoohan stated that " John Drake of ' Secret Agent ' is gone.

* August 10 – Robert G. Fowler, American pioneer aviator ( d. 1966 )

According to Robert M. Gray of Stanford University, the first ideas leading to LPC started in 1966 when S. Saito and F. Itakura of NTT described an approach to automatic phoneme discrimination that involved the first maximum likelihood approach to speech coding.

* Robert Kasten Jr., MBA 1966, U. S. Senator from Wisconsin 1981 to 1993.

* In Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, computer technician Manuel Davis blames a real bug for a ( non-existent ) failure of supercomputer Mike, presenting a dead fly as evidence.

An Ali biographer reports that, when interviewed by Robert Lipsyte in 1966, the boxer actually said, " I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ".

* Conan the Adventurer ( 1966 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-first of the paperback printings of the Howard / de Camp " Conan " collaborations, which ensured the success of the character and defined it for a generation

In 1966 the company was sold by then owner Robert G. Wharam ( son of Robert Marr Wharam ) on his retirement, to their rivals John Bolding & Sons.

In 1966 he was nominated for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry in succession to Robert Graves ; with some misgivings he agreed to stand and was elected by a large majority over the other candidate, Robert Lowell.