* 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 )

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

* 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.

In 1966, the U. S. Justice Department ordered Humble Oil to " cease and desist " from using the Esso brand at stations in several southeastern states, following protests from Standard Oil of Kentucky ( Kyso ), which was a Standard of California subsidiary in the process of rebranding its Standard stations to Chevron.

* 1885 – Chester Nimitz, U. S. admiral ( d. 1966 )

A planned 1972 U. S. network television screening of the 1966 Warner Bros. film The Brides of Fu Manchu was cancelled due to protests from an Asian anti-defamation group.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1966.

On 20 October 1966, President Johnson arrived in Australia at Holt's invitation for a three-day state visit, the first to Australia by a serving U. S. President.

* 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U. S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.

The concept of " Miranda rights " was enshrined in U. S. law following the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda had been violated during his arrest and trial for domestic violence.

Gen U Ne Win, President of Myanmar ( 1966 )

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 ).

* 1966 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

* 1966: " Georgia On My Mind " — # 62 U. S.

* 1966: "( You're My ) Soul and Inspiration " — # 1 U. S. ( Gold ), # 15 UK

* 1966: " He " — # 18 U. S. / " He Will Break Your Heart ", a. k. a. " He Don't Love You ( Like I Love You )" — # 91 U. S.

* 1966: " Go Ahead and Cry " — # 30 U. S.

* 1966: " On This Side of Goodbye " — # 47 U. S.

During this period in London he also collaborated on a number of songs with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, including " I Wish You Could Be Here ", " Cloudy ", and " Red Rubber Ball ", which would be a U. S. No. 1 hit for the Cyrkle in 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 ".

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. ; 1966.

* 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.