* 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 )

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

The other was an FCC rulemaking in 1966 that required broadcasters who owned both full-time AM stations and FM properties in the same city to program each of them with separate programming during a majority of the day.

In 1966, Jakarta was declared a " special capital city district " ( daerah khusus ibukota ), thus gaining a status approximately equivalent to that of a state or province.

To seal the merger, Rozelle arrived in New Orleans within a week, and announced on November 1, 1966 that the NFL officially had awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise.

* 1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.

Listings in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966.

Indeed, much of Uzbekistan's capital city, Tashkent, was destroyed in a major earthquake in 1966, and other earthquakes have caused significant damage before and since the Tashkent disaster.

** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.

After Walt Disney died in 1966 before his vision was realized, the Disney Company board decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city, and eventually abandoned many of his ideas for Progress City.

* March 27, 1966: Walt Disney produced his final film, a promotional where he tells Florida residents the plans for Walt Disney World and EPCOT the city

Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge, who hired Ebert as a reporter and feature writer at the Sun-Times in 1966.

Blantyre, Malawi remains Malawi's major commercial center and largest city, having grown from an estimated 109, 000 inhabitants in 1966 to nearly 500, 000 in 1998.

The Newark Boys Chorus, founded in 1966, performs regularly in the city.

* Formerly, there was the Saint John Fisher Roman Catholic Junior High School in Hull, East Yorkshire, that operated between c. 1966 – c. 1988, when the school system in the city was restructured.

With the establishment of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England in 1966, city grants were again in abeyance in England.

In December 1966, Jefferson Airplane was featured in a Newsweek article about the booming San Francisco music scene, one of the first in a welter of similar media reports that prompted a massive influx of young people to the city and contributed to the commercialization and exploitation of the hippie culture.

After Walt Disney died in 1966, most of his ideas for this planned city were abandoned, and the Walt Disney World Resort opened in 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom and a few hotels.

The city was a bishopric before the Muslim conquest, and Ombos was a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, referred to as Ombi ; this has been vacant since 1966.

He was Mayor of the city of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.

Interstate 70 reached Victoria in 1966, passing north of the city.

The church, which was founded in the neighboring city of Birmingham, moved to its present location in 1966.

The Village of Rochester became a city in 1966, breaking away from Avon Township.

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

In 1966, the House Un-American Activities Committee published long lists of the names of Natchez residents who were current or former members of the Klan, including over 70 employees at the International Paper plant in the city, as well as members of the Natchez police department and the Adams County Sheriff's department.