* 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 )

* Dedijer, Vladimir, The Road to Sarajevo ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 )

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

Simon & Garfunkel at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands | the Netherlands in 1966.

A red vinyl promotional copy of Simon & Garfunkel's single " I Am a Rock ", from 1966.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

More tracks from The Paul Simon Songbook were included along with recent compositions on their October 10, 1966, album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, which refined the folk rock sound hastily released on Sound of Silence.

Simon also contributed to The Seekers catalogue with " Someday One Day ," which was released in March 1966, charting at around the same time as Simon and Garfunkel's Homeward Bound.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 ( ISBN 0-6717-4807-6 )

His work as a songwriter met with particular success in the UK: top 40 UK hits written by Newman included Cilla Black's " I've Been Wrong Before " (# 17, 1965 ), Gene Pitney's " Nobody Needs Your Love " (# 2, 1966 ) and " Just One Smile " (# 8, 1966 ); and The Alan Price Set's " Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear " (# 4, 1967 ).

Carthy's arrangement of the traditional ballad " Scarborough Fair " was adapted, without acknowledgment, by Paul Simon on the Simon and Garfunkel album recording Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme in 1966.

* Chandler, David G. The Campaigns of Napoleon, Volume 1 Simon and Schuster, 1966

During the last few years of airing the association became less close, most notably in a radical shake-up, introduced by incoming Executive Producer Stanley Appel ( who had worked on the programme since 1966 as cameraman, production assistant, director and stand-in producer ) in October 1991, when the Radio 1 DJs were replaced by a team of relative unknowns, such as Claudia Simon and Tony Dortie who had previously worked for CBBC, 17-year-old local radio DJ Mark Franklin, Steve Anderson, Adrian Rose and Elayne Smith, who was replaced by Femi Oke in 1992.

* Pleasants, Henry, The Great Singers ( Simon & Schuster, New York 1966 ).

After five years of retirement, he was lured back into acting by the opportunity to parody himself in After the Fox ( 1966 ), co-written by Neil Simon.

* The Cherry in the Martini ( Simon & Schuster, 1966 )

* Simon Rupert Trustram Eve, 3rd Baron Silsoe ( b. 1966 )

* The Great Singers, by Henry Pleasants, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1966 / 81.

In 1966, writer John G. Fuller secured the cooperation of the Hills and Dr. Simon, and wrote the book The Interrupted Journey about the case.

In late 1966 Simon Napier-Bell asked Grant to take over management of the Yardbirds, who were constantly touring yet struggling financially.

Her elder daughter Margot Elinor, Lady Davson OBE died 10 September 1966 in Rome ; she married Sir Edward Davson, 1st Baronet ( 14 September 1875 – 9 August 1937 ) in 1921 and had two sons: Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson, who inherited his father's baronetcy ( created 1927 ) but changed his name to Anthony Glyn ( 13 March 1922 – 20 January 1998 ), and Christopher Davson.

* Simon Doyle ( born 1966 ), former Australian middle distance runner