* 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 )

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

In 1966 members of the orchestra were seen recording in the Motown studio on W. Grand Boulevard with The Supremes for the ABC-TV documentary " Anatomy of Pop: The Music Explosion.

**" Come and Get These Memories " – a remake of the Martha and the Vandellas hit, featured on the group's 1966 hit album The Supremes A ' Go-Go, alternate mix included on " Lost & Found – Let the Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960 – 1969 ".

It has also been recorded by The Ventures ( Liberty 1965 ) as well as by Arseno Rodriguez ( Bang 1966 ), The Supremes ( Motown 1966 ), The Kingsmen ( WAND 1966 ), Little Caesar and the Consuls, The Yardbirds, Saving Jane, Jan & Dean ( Liberty-LP " Folk ' n ' Roll " 1965 ), David Porter ( Enterprise " Into A Real Thing " 1971 ), Lieutenant Pigeon and Die Toten Hosen ( 2002 ).

The Supremes recorded a cover of this song between 1965 and 1966, released on the their # 1 album, The Supremes A ' Go-Go.

The Supremes covered the song in 1966 in their The Supremes A ' Go Go album.

Their version was recorded in 1966 and intended to be included on their album The Supremes A ' Go-Go, however it was cut from the tracklist and remained unreleased until 2006.

The various groups reached a compromise, and in 1966 the governor unveiled the proposal for what would become Battery Park City.

Bet Lynch ( Julie Goodyear ) first appeared in 1966, before becoming a regular in 1970, and went on to become one of the most famous Corrie characters.

( 1966 ) quickly moved from its fanzine roots to become one of the first rock music " prozines ," with paid advertisers and newsstand distribution.

On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles, California, two years after the song had become a hit.

It has also seized power twice at home ( 1966 & 1983 ) and today ‘ has become entrenched in all facets of civic and economic life ,’ including manipulation of national political life – General Sani Abacha ’ s creation of artificial political parties – and a central role in the control and management of Nigeria ’ s oil wealth.

She was also the first African-American woman to serve on the federal judiciary ( 1966 ), as well as the first African-American and the first woman to become Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ( 1982 ).

However, he dropped out of university studies and moved to Paris in October 1966 to become a painter.

Consequently, in 1962 Bhutan joined the Colombo Plan for Cooperative, Economic, and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific known as the Colombo Plan, and in 1966 notified India of its desire to become a member of the United Nations ( UN ).

The first five of the initial panelists were to later appear on the first broadcast week ( October 17 – 21, 1966 ) and become the five initial regulars on NBC-TV.

After fulfilling their deal for two singles the band presented demos to A & M during 1966 for what would become the Safe as Milk album.

" The album was released May 16, 1966 and, despite modest sales figures at the time, has since become widely critically acclaimed, often being cited among the all-time greatest albums.

" In 1966, Maciunas, Watts and others took advantage of new legislation drafted to regenerate the area of Manhattan known as ' Hell's Hundred Acres ', soon to become rebranded as SoHo, allowing artists to buy live / work spaces in an area that had been blighted due to a proposed 18-lane expressway along Broome Street.

By the time The Beatles stopped touring in late 1966, their promotional films, like their recordings, had become highly sophisticated.

The UPA was to later become the Protestant Unionist Party in 1966.

Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become " the most famous Indian musician on the planet " by 1966.

The academy was established as a Mennonite school, but in 1966 it dropped its Mennonite distinctives to become an interdenominational Christian school.

In 1966, Rochester residents voted to become a city, effective in February 1967.

In the fall of 1966, Plymouth's school system merged with the Edwardsville and Larksville schools to become " Plymouth Area High School ", one of three divisions in a consolidated school district called " Wyoming Valley West ".

Carl and his two sons would move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1966, and found Common Market, the company would become Swift Transportation in 1969.

By early 1966 he had become the band's spokesman, interviewed separately from the band for the BBC television series A Whole Scene Going admitting that the band used drugs and that he considered The Beatles ' backing tracks " flippin ' lousy ".

In 1966, Reines took most of his neutrino research team with him when he left for California to become the founding dean of physical sciences at the then new University of California, Irvine ( UCI ).

On October 3, 1952, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet made its television debut and was broadcast in first run until September 3, 1966 to become one of the longest running sitcoms in television history.

This relatively clean, jangly sound — without benefit of distortion or other guitar effects — would prove to be a cornerstone of folk rock instrumentation and would become de rigueur for American folk rock records made during 1965 and 1966.

In 1966, a milkman named Pierre Celis in the town of Hoegaarden ( about an hour ’ s drive east of Brussels ) decided to revive witbier, a regional beer style that had become extinct almost a decade earlier when the town ’ s last brewery closed.